Sondra
Sondra was given to 7 girls in 2025, #13,009 among girls’ names; 27,074 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 18,700 Americans named Sondra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (69% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 54 and 77.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sondra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Sondra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Sondra is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Sondra?
#13,009 among girls’ names, 2025
Sondra rose from #14,318 in 2015 to #13,009 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 4.4 per million.
897 babies in 1942, the peak
Sondra peaked in 1942, when 897 girls were given it, #219 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are under 1% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #13,009 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 7 | #13,297 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 8 | #12,060 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,591 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,157 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,318 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,844 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,917 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 9 | #12,091 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,753 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (104)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 10 | #11,365 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 16 | #8,062 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,724 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,320 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,497 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,179 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,021 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,239 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,145 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,383 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,431 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 32 | #3,720 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,354 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 46 | #2,704 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,385 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,224 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 67 | #2,059 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 94 | #1,624 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 103 | #1,510 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,193 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 157 | #1,076 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 183 | #928 | 0.10 |
| 1987 | 152 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 1986 | 195 | #853 | 0.11 |
| 1985 | 177 | #900 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 195 | #815 | 0.12 |
| 1983 | 178 | #859 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 243 | #716 | 0.14 |
| 1981 | 246 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1980 | 222 | #749 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 242 | #702 | 0.15 |
| 1978 | 256 | #641 | 0.17 |
| 1977 | 215 | #719 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 227 | #672 | 0.15 |
| 1975 | 280 | #586 | 0.19 |
| 1974 | 314 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1973 | 322 | #524 | 0.22 |
| 1972 | 339 | #510 | 0.22 |
| 1971 | 375 | #505 | 0.23 |
| 1970 | 501 | #440 | 0.29 |
| 1969 | 540 | #409 | 0.32 |
| 1968 | 511 | #412 | 0.31 |
| 1967 | 521 | #401 | 0.32 |
| 1966 | 547 | #389 | 0.32 |
| 1965 | 577 | #383 | 0.33 |
| 1964 | 615 | #389 | 0.32 |
| 1963 | 596 | #394 | 0.31 |
| 1962 | 631 | #373 | 0.32 |
| 1961 | 517 | #431 | 0.26 |
| 1960 | 497 | #439 | 0.25 |
| 1959 | 462 | #448 | 0.23 |
| 1958 | 391 | #481 | 0.19 |
| 1957 | 362 | #498 | 0.18 |
| 1956 | 384 | #476 | 0.19 |
| 1955 | 387 | #459 | 0.20 |
| 1954 | 443 | #409 | 0.23 |
| 1953 | 451 | #400 | 0.24 |
| 1952 | 504 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1951 | 410 | #409 | 0.23 |
| 1950 | 475 | #365 | 0.28 |
| 1949 | 503 | #344 | 0.29 |
| 1948 | 550 | #332 | 0.32 |
| 1947 | 631 | #309 | 0.36 |
| 1946 | 617 | #293 | 0.39 |
| 1945 | 530 | #299 | 0.41 |
| 1944 | 590 | #284 | 0.44 |
| 1943 | 762 | #254 | 0.55 |
| 1942 | 897 | #219 | 0.66 |
| 1941 | 770 | #227 | 0.64 |
| 1940 | 879 | #199 | 0.77 |
| 1939 | 875 | #201 | 0.80 |
| 1938 | 758 | #222 | 0.69 |
| 1937 | 553 | #266 | 0.52 |
| 1936 | 439 | #293 | 0.42 |
| 1935 | 408 | #302 | 0.39 |
| 1934 | 448 | #289 | 0.43 |
| 1933 | 337 | #338 | 0.33 |
| 1932 | 297 | #375 | 0.28 |
| 1931 | 145 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 51 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1929 | 62 | #914 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 59 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,211 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,989 | 0.02 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,793 | under 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,919 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,898 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,739 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,232 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,668 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,004 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,141 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,369 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Sondra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Sondra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 104 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Sondra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sondra, and how old are they?
18,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 69% of the 27,074 Americans ever recorded as Sondra. The median Sondra alive today is 64 years old; half are between 54 and 77.
The 2020 Census counted 21,227 people named Sondra (21,209 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 21,134 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3,350 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7,280 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,510 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,220 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 311 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 59 |
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 Sondra born?
The states with the most babies named Sondra are New York, Ohio and California, with 27% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 2,598 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 2,003 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 1,894 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 1,742 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 1,600 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 1,379 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Illinois | 1,145 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Missouri | 1,054 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 827 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kentucky | 789 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Sondra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Sondra is most over-represented in Kansas: since 1912 it was given 2.4 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 Sondra 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 27,227 babies since 1880, Sondra is the most given (99% of them).
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 Sondra
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 Sondra and names like it
- Compare Sondra and SoundraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sSondra peaked in 1942.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sondra since 1910.
- The top names of 1942The year the most babies were named Sondra.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Sondra alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with SMost given first.