Saundra
Saundra was last recorded in 2017, when 6 babies were given it; 17,862 Americans have been recorded with it between 1925 and 2017 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,500 Americans named Saundra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (70% of everyone recorded); the median is 70 years old and half are between 59 and 79.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Saundra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Saundra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,617, in 2017; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
813 babies in 1947, the peak
Saundra peaked in 1947, when 813 girls were given it, #269 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 6 | #15,617 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,110 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,668 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,764 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,207 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,508 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,079 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,346 | under 0.01 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,545 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,919 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 15 | #8,167 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,805 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,631 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,829 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,366 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,652 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,423 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,172 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,900 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,983 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,157 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,563 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 30 | #3,683 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,270 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 44 | #2,761 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 53 | #2,406 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 61 | #2,141 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 63 | #2,014 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 88 | #1,529 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 99 | #1,378 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 113 | #1,222 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,517 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,073 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,187 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 82 | #1,470 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 55 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 73 | #1,598 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 78 | #1,515 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 93 | #1,306 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 79 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 105 | #1,132 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 109 | #1,080 | 0.07 |
| 1974 | 130 | #957 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 158 | #832 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 147 | #873 | 0.10 |
| 1971 | 210 | #725 | 0.13 |
| 1970 | 256 | #644 | 0.15 |
| 1969 | 250 | #628 | 0.15 |
| 1968 | 277 | #577 | 0.17 |
| 1967 | 269 | #584 | 0.16 |
| 1966 | 300 | #545 | 0.18 |
| 1965 | 283 | #568 | 0.16 |
| 1964 | 326 | #549 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 371 | #505 | 0.19 |
| 1962 | 340 | #531 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 340 | #532 | 0.17 |
| 1960 | 326 | #534 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 347 | #522 | 0.17 |
| 1958 | 325 | #539 | 0.16 |
| 1957 | 322 | #534 | 0.16 |
| 1956 | 345 | #505 | 0.17 |
| 1955 | 320 | #516 | 0.16 |
| 1954 | 346 | #481 | 0.18 |
| 1953 | 372 | #446 | 0.20 |
| 1952 | 453 | #387 | 0.24 |
| 1951 | 475 | #371 | 0.26 |
| 1950 | 508 | #349 | 0.30 |
| 1949 | 648 | #304 | 0.38 |
| 1948 | 711 | #288 | 0.42 |
| 1947 | 813 | #269 | 0.46 |
| 1946 | 744 | #264 | 0.47 |
| 1945 | 619 | #280 | 0.47 |
| 1944 | 702 | #260 | 0.53 |
| 1943 | 746 | #256 | 0.53 |
| 1942 | 805 | #238 | 0.60 |
| 1941 | 592 | #263 | 0.49 |
| 1940 | 485 | #285 | 0.42 |
| 1939 | 409 | #306 | 0.37 |
| 1938 | 341 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1937 | 206 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1936 | 170 | #494 | 0.16 |
| 1935 | 118 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1934 | 68 | #829 | 0.07 |
| 1933 | 46 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 35 | #1,234 | 0.03 |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,667 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,251 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,658 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Saundra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Saundra has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Saundra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Saundra, and how old are they?
12,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 70% of the 17,862 Americans ever recorded as Saundra. The median Saundra alive today is 70 years old; half are between 59 and 79.
The 2020 Census counted 13,329 people named Saundra (13,320 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 14,140 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2,430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6,320 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,590 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 927 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 216 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Saundra born?
The states with the most babies named Saundra are Ohio, California and Pennsylvania, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 1,793 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 1,425 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,176 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 999 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 929 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 700 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| North Carolina | 679 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Kentucky | 638 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Indiana | 621 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 578 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Saundra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Saundra is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1925 it was given 2.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Saundra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 897,537 babies since 1880, Saundra is the second most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 188 babies recorded by SSA was a Saundra (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Saundra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Saundra and names like it
- Compare Saundra and SandraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSaundra peaked in 1947.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Saundra since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Saundra.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Saundra alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.