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Sandrine

Gender
Girl
Say it
sahn-DREEN
Origin
Greek

Sandrine is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “defender of men”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Sandrine mean?

Greek: French diminutive of Sandra, from Alexandra

“defender of men”

French form of Sandra, itself a short form of Alexandra.

Is Sandrine a girl's or a boy's name?

Sandrine is a girls' name.

How popular is Sandrine in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2008, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 1968.

Half of all the girls named Sandrine in the US since 1880 were born between 1980 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1968Busiest: 11 in 20082023
Sandrine in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20239#10,307
20220–
20210–
20200–
20190–
20188#11,422
20170–
20166#14,326
20156#14,477
20146#14,552
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20095#17,288
200811#10,080
20076#15,485
20066#15,147
20050–
20046#14,172
20035#15,777
20020–
20010–
20007#11,794
19990–
19980–
19978#9,797
19967#10,562
19956#11,778
19940–
19936#11,773
19926#11,730
19910–
19909#8,495
19898#8,755
19880–
19876#9,820
19866#9,540
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19815#10,409
19807#8,177
19795#10,208
19780–
19770–
19760–
19757#7,171
19740–
19739#5,578
19726#7,290
19710–
19706#7,069
19695#7,469
19685#7,014

Names like Sandrine

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sandrine: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sandrine, updated 20 October 2026.