How Many People Are Named Sondra?

19,126

people named Sondra are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 17,870 people in the US has this name

Based on 27,074 babies named Sondra in Social Security records from 1912 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,666

๐Ÿ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#899

See the top 100

Peak Year

1942

897 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: SAWN-drษ™
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of SAUNDRA. It was popularized in the English-speaking world by a character in Theodore Dreiser's novel 'An American Tragedy' (1925) and the subsequent movie adaptation (1931).

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

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โšง Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Sondra in the records were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Sondra alive today is about 63 years old, and 60% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 53 and 77 in 2025.

Under 30 415
2.2%
30 to 59 7,204
37.7%
60 and over 11,507
60.2%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Sondra first appears in the records in 1912 and was given most often in 1942, to 897 babies. In 2025, 7 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1912 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Sondra has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #199, in 1940. In 2025 it ranked #13,008.

Girls
Rank in 2025#13,008
Best rank#199 (1940)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#279 in the 1940s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Sondra alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Sondra were born in California than in any other state: about 1,449 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Sondra was given 3 times as often in Kansas, 2.3 times in Indiana and 1.8 times in Missouri.

California 1,449
Texas 1,343
Ohio 1,341
New York 1,333
Pennsylvania 1,027
Indiana 905
Illinois 811
Missouri 733
Kentucky 615
Michigan 587
Kansas 514
Tennessee 447
Florida 424
Oklahoma 406
North Carolina 399
Louisiana 392
Alabama 378
Georgia 371
New Jersey 338
Arkansas 319
Iowa 290
Mississippi 263
Virginia 208
Maryland 201
Nebraska 185
West Virginia 181
South Carolina 154
Wisconsin 149
Colorado 142
Minnesota 130
Massachusetts 108
Washington 102
Arizona 76
Utah 66
Oregon 50
Connecticut 48
District of Columbia 30
New Mexico 23
Idaho 17
South Dakota 9
North Dakota 5
Alaska 5
Rhode Island 4

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