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Sandi

#16,847 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Aleksandar

Sandi has been given to 10,122 babies in the U.S. since 1934. In 2025 it ranked #16,847 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1959, with 368 recorded.

Babies named Sandi, 2025

1 in 663,000

Sandi over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sandi: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Aleksandar

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sandi means

Sandi is a diminutive of Aleksandar.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sandi is used in Croatian and Slovene.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sandi → Aleksandar → Ᾰ̓λέξᾰνδρος. The family’s proposed meaning is “to repel”, recorded in Ancient Greek with the source elements ăléxō.

Origin, language, and formation

Sandi is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aleksandar, Sandra, Alexandra, Cassandra, Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford and Santiago.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Sandi is pronounced /ˈsæn.di/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,101 girls were recorded with the name Sandi between 1934 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 368 in 1959; its best national rank was #510 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,333 in 2020 to #16,847 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,656 in 2015 to #16,847 in 2025.

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Sandi between 1982 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1999; its best national rank was #5,510 in 1982.

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 Sandi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#16,847
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sandi 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sandi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sandis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sandi was born before 1966 — so the typical Sandi is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
8,712
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 30.7% of all recorded uses (3,103).

Is Sandi 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
+411
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−8,514
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,809
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.4%
Peak was 1959 (368)
Years since peak
66
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#510
1959

Spellings of Sandi

Sandi is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 46.8% against Sandi's 0.54%.

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 Sandi is used

Across 1910–2025, Sandi was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 22,864 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

011 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 9,091
  2. 2Oregon1 in 10,000
  3. 3California1 in 11,111
  4. 4Colorado1 in 16,667
  5. 5Iowa1 in 16,667
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 16,667
  7. 7Utah1 in 16,667
  8. 8Florida1 in 20,000

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. Sandi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sandi around the world

Where Sandi 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.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2007
    #4,294
    in 2007
  • Scotland
    1979–2022
    #760
    in 2022
  • France
    1979–2016
    #7,018
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–1996
    #2,248
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1970–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Sandi

People whose public names include Sandi, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Sandi by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,847
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 8,514
Best rank ever
#510
1959
Peak year
1959
368 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,101
Count in 2025
5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,510
1982
Peak year
1999
8 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sandi

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

SanaaSantaSanaiSaniyaMandiSanaSanyaSaniaSaniyahSanviSandySantanaRandiAndiSanayaSaniahSannaSantinaCindiCandiWendiLyndiSanamSanjana

Names with a curve like Sandi

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Sandi, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DeannKarynCharlaDeanneDeenaTanaJaneenLanetteLynnetteCarynShellieDawna

Sibling names for Sandi

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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