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Sanda

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Sanda has been given to 604 babies in the U.S. since 1930. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 23 recorded.

Babies named Sanda, 1998

1 in 735,000

Sanda over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sanda: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sanda means

Sanda has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Sanda

One of the source’s documented entries for Sanda records a meaning of moon.

Origin, language, and formation

Sanda is used in Latvian, Romanian and Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sandra and Alexandra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 604 girls were recorded with the name Sanda between 1930 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1947; its best national rank was #2,013 in 1946.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Sanda?

Sanda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among girls only
1 in 353,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sanda sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sanda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sandas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sanda was born before 1959 — so the typical Sanda is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
26.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
436
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 26.2% of all recorded uses (158).

Is Sanda rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (23)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,013
1946

Spellings of Sanda

Sanda is not the most common spelling — Linda is, with 21.8% against Sanda's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sanda is used

Across 1910–2025, Sanda was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,023,410 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sanda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sanda around the world

Where Sanda ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1969–2020
    #7,315
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1944–1965
    #674
    in 1965

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sanda by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,013
1946
Peak year
1947
23 that year
First recorded
1930
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
604
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sanda

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

SanamSannaSanaeSansaSanviSanikaSaniaSanaiiSanyaSaniSanoraSanariSanahSanyeSaniahSanylaSanayaKindaSanaiSantaSanaiyaSanayahSandeSanem

Sibling names for Sanda

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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