Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Sandra

SANDRA

GENDER: Feminine

USAGE: Italian, English, French, Portuguese, German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Slovene, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian

OTHER SCRIPTS: Сандра (Serbian, Macedonian)

PRONOUNCED: SAHN-drah (Italian, Dutch), SAN-drə (English), ZAHN-drah (German) [key]

Meaning & History

Short form of ALESSANDRA. It was introduced to the English-speaking world by author George Meredith, who used it for the heroine in his novel 'Emilia in England' (1864) and the reissued version 'Sandra Belloni' (1887).

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VARIANTS: Alessa (Italian), Sondra (English)

DIMINUTIVES: Sandy, Sandie (English), Sandrine (French)

OTHER LANGUAGES: Aleksandrina (Bulgarian), Szandra (Hungarian), Ola (Polish), Sanda (Romanian), Aleksandrina, Sasha, Shura (Russian), Saundra (Scottish), Ale (Spanish), Lesya (Ukrainian)

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