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Sandro

#2,596 in 2025Boys' name

To repel, through Alessandro

Sandro has been given to 1,938 babies in the U.S. since 1958. In 2025 it ranked #2,596 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Sandro, 2025

1 in 65,000

Sandro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sandro: meaning, origin, and history

To repel, through Alessandro

Italian

What Sandro means

Sandro belongs to the name family reached through Sandro → Sandro → Alessandro → Ἀλέξανδρος. Its meaning is “to repel”.

Origin, language, and formation

Sandro is used in German, Italian and Portuguese. Its origins include Italian.

Sandro comes through Italian Sandro.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Alessandro, Sandro and Ἀλέξανδρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In German, Sandro is pronounced /ˈzandʁo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,938 boys were recorded with the name Sandro between 1958 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 59 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,113 in 1975.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,252 in 2020 to #2,596 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,575 in 2015 to #2,596 in 2025.

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 Sandro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 65,000
51 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 33,500
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,596
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,058 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sandro sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 45,058 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sandro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sandros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sandro was born before 1999 — so the typical Sandro is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,938
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Choose a decade

1970s — 22.4% of all recorded uses (434).

Is Sandro 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
−45
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,656
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+979
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.65×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.4%
Peak was 2023 (59)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,113
1975

Spellings of Sandro

Sandro is not the most common spelling — Andre is, with 69.8% against Sandro's 1.0%.

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 Sandro is used

Across 1910–2025, Sandro was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 91,973 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Sandro has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sandro around the world

Where Sandro 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
    1997–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2014–2014
    #715
    in 2014
  • France
    1952–2025
    #101
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1957–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Sandro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,596
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,656
Best rank ever
#1,113
1975
Peak year
2023
59 that year
First recorded
1958
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,938
Count in 2025
51

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Sibling names for Sandro

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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