Sandie

Where Sandie comes from

The dictionaries list Sandie as a given name — a diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, and Cassandra — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1934
    First appearance
    #3,802 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Peak, #892
    98 babies named Sandie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1950
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,679.
  4. 1951
    Sandie Jones born
    Irish singer
  5. 1995
    Sandie Toletti born
    French footballer
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, and Cassandra.
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford, and Santiago.
Namesakes
  • Sandie Toletti · French footballer, born 1995
  • Sandie Jones · Irish singer, 1951–2019
  • Sandie Clair · French racing cyclist and bobsledder, born 1988
  • Sandie Rinaldo · Canadian journalist, born 1950

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.