Sandra
English edit
Etymology edit
A short form of Alexandra and, less often, of Cassandra.
Pronunciation edit
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsændɹə/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Proper noun edit
Sandra (plural Sandras)
- A female given name.
- 1971, Hugh Hood, The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press, published 1971, page 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."
- 2012 March 7, Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, “Women's Access to Health Care”, in Congressional Record[1], page 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.
Usage notes edit
- Popular in the Anglophone world from the 1940s to the 1960s.
Translations edit
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Czech edit
Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra
Declension edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Sandra
- a female given name, short for Alexandra
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
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Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Proper noun edit
Sandra
- a female given name, short for Aleksandra
Faroese edit
Etymology edit
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Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra
Usage notes edit
Matronymics
- son of Sandra: Sandruson
- daughter of Sandra: Sandrudóttir
Declension edit
Singular | |
Indefinite | |
Nominative | Sandra |
Accusative | Sandru |
Dative | Sandru |
Genitive | Sandru |
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Shortened from Aleksandra after foreign examples.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra
- a female given name
Declension edit
Inflection of Sandra (Kotus type 9/kala, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | Sandra | Sandrat | ||
genitive | Sandran | Sandrojen | ||
partitive | Sandraa | Sandroja | ||
illative | Sandraan | Sandroihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | Sandra | Sandrat | ||
accusative | nom. | Sandra | Sandrat | |
gen. | Sandran | |||
genitive | Sandran | Sandrojen Sandrainrare | ||
partitive | Sandraa | Sandroja | ||
inessive | Sandrassa | Sandroissa | ||
elative | Sandrasta | Sandroista | ||
illative | Sandraan | Sandroihin | ||
adessive | Sandralla | Sandroilla | ||
ablative | Sandralta | Sandroilta | ||
allative | Sandralle | Sandroille | ||
essive | Sandrana | Sandroina | ||
translative | Sandraksi | Sandroiksi | ||
abessive | Sandratta | Sandroitta | ||
instructive | — | Sandroin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Statistics edit
- Sandra is the 245th most common female given name in Finland, belonging to 2,185 female individuals (and as a middle name to 480 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name, short form of Alexandra
Related terms edit
German edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
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Sandra f (proper noun, genitive Sandras or (with an article) Sandra, masculine Sandro)
- a female given name from Italian, popular in Germany around 1965 – 1990, equivalent to English Sandra
Icelandic edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name
Declension edit
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of Alessandra.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
First recorded as a given name of Latvians in 1937. From Aleksandra.
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra
Related terms edit
References edit
Lithuanian edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name
Norwegian edit
Etymology edit
Short form of Alexandra. First used as a given name in the end of the 19th century.
Proper noun edit
Sandra
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra
Portuguese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɐ̃dɾɐ
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a diminutive of the female given name Alessandra, equivalent to English Sandra
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Italian Sandra, short form of Alessandra, from Ancient Greek Ἀλεξάνδρα (Alexándra). Compare Spanish Alejandra.
Pronunciation edit
Proper noun edit
Sandra f
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
A short form of Alexandra. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1871.
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Proper noun edit
Sandra c (genitive Sandras)
- a female given name, equivalent to English Sandra