Sandra

sandra English Etymology A short form of en Alexandra and, less often, of en Cassandra. Pronunciation en /ˈsandɹə/ /ˈsɑːndɹə/ RP en /ˈsændɹə/ GA en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Sandra.wav Southern England en ændɹə 2 Proper noun s en female. en 1971 w:Hugh Hood The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories Oberon Press 1971 23 "Sandra, that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is Sandra. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl Sandra for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star Sandra, or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name." en 2012-03-07 Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee Women's Access to Health Care w:Congressional Record http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Women%27s_Access_to_Health_Care H1218 A young law student, Sandra Fluke, came before this body, before the Members of Congress, and testified regarding coverage for family planning and contraceptives. en Chuck Johnston Judge not allowed back to court after berating woman who died w:CNN https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/us/woman-dies-after-judge-berates-her-trnd 2018-04-23 Judge Merrilee Ehrlich was seen in video of the April 15 court appearance yelling at Sandra Faye Twiggs. The 59-year-old was in court on a simple battery charge after a dispute over a fan at her home in Lauderhill. https://web.archive.org/web/20251112190719/https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/23/us/woman-dies-after-judge-berates-her-trnd Usage notes Popular in the Anglophone world from the 1940s to the 1960s. Derived terms en Kendra Translations female given name Esperanto: eo Alenjo for "Alexandra", eo Kasanjo for "Cassandra" French: fr Sandra German: de Sandra Russian: ru Са́ндра f Anagrams en aadnrs NARSAD Randas nasard sandar sardan Czech cs: Etymology cs Pronunciation Proper noun f cs female Sandra Declension f Danish Etymology da Proper noun da proper noun da female, short for da Alexandra Dutch Pronunciation nl Nl-Sandra.ogg Proper noun f nl female Estonian Etymology et Proper noun et proper noun et female, short for et Aleksandra Faroese Etymology fo Proper noun fo proper noun f fo female Sandra Usage notes f Sandruson Sandrudóttir Declension Sandra Sandru Sandru Sandru Finnish Etymology Shortened from fi Aleksandra after foreign examples. Pronunciation Proper noun fi female Declension Sandr a Statistics dvv_20250813 2249 504 243 References French Etymology fr :clipping Alexandra fr Alexandra. Pronunciation fr LL-Q150 (fra)-Exilexi-Sandra.wav Proper noun f fr female, short form of fr Alexandra Related terms fr Sandrine German Etymology de :bor it:Sandra de it Sandra. Pronunciation de /ˈzandʁa/ de De-Sandra.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) Proper noun f.gen:s:-[with an article] Sandro de female Italian Sandra in Germany around 1965 – 1990 Icelandic Proper noun @@ is female Declension f Italian Etymology Diminutive of it Alessandra. Pronunciation Sàndra Proper noun f it female Latvian Etymology First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1937. From lv Aleksandra. Proper noun lv proper noun f lv female Sandra Related terms lv Sanda References Klāvs Siliņš: Latviešu personvārdu vārdnīca. Riga "Zinātne" 1990, 5-7966-0278-0 Population Register of Latvia: Sandra was the only given name of 8496 persons in Latvia on May 21st 2010. Lithuanian Pronunciation Sándra Proper noun f lt female Norwegian Bokmål Sandra (given name),no:Sandra Etymology nb Aleksandra female given name, also used as a short form of the spelling variant nb Alexandra. The underlying name is nb la Alexandra female given name, from nb grc Ἀλεξάνδρα Alexándra, the feminine form of grc Ἀλέξανδρος Aléxandros male given name. It is traditionally analysed as grc ἀλέξω aléxō to ward off, defend and grc ἀνήρ anḗr man, genitive grc ἀνδρός andrós, hence “defender of men” or “protector of men”. 1850 in Norway, documented in Bodin, Nordland. Compare da Sandra, sv Sandra and it Sandra female given name. Pronunciation nb /ˈsan.dra/ nb andra 2 nb San dra Proper noun nb proper noun nb female Latin < Ancient Greek Sandra, originally a short form of nb Aleksandra or nb Alexandra. Usage notes nb Sandra is used both as an independent given name and as a short form, nickname, or pet form of nb Aleksandra or nb Alexandra. The Norwegian name day for nb Sandra is 17 February, shared with nb Aleksandra and nb Sondre. nb Sandra was particularly popular in Norway around the beginning of the 21st century. Statistics According to Statistics Norway, 5,801 women in Norway had nb Sandra as their sole or first given name as of 31 December 2025.“10501: Persons, by year and first name”, Statistics Norway. References “Sandra” in Store norske leksikon “Sandra” at Nordic Names Sandra (given name) Sandra no Portuguese Etymology pt Pronunciation pt ɐ̃dɾɐ 2 pt San dra Proper noun f + Sandro pt female Sandra Serbo-Croatian Pronunciation Sȃndra sh Proper noun Sȃndra f sh female Declension Sandr Further reading Spanish Etymology es it Sandra, short form of it Alessandra, from es grc Ἀλεξάνδρα. Compare es Alejandra. Pronunciation Proper noun f es female Sandra Swedish Etymology A short form of sv Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871. Pronunciation sv LL-Q9027 (swe)-Moonhouse-Sandra.wav Proper noun c sv female Sandra Anagrams sv aadnrs andars andras dansar sandar