Sander is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Sander is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Sander. In the SmartGenius ranking, Sander is #3,193 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Sander.
If your name is Sander your parents may be very proud to let their son swim against the tide: The name Sander has never ranked higher than position 1,387 in our statistics and for many years not a single parent had the creative idea to choose the name Sander for their son. But something caused mothers and fathers in 1937 to give the name more often than usual – only compared to the rest of the time, of course. You probably still won't find many children named Sander because that was several decades ago – unless, of course, you have some very creative parents in your neighborhood.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Sander was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As in the last century, Sander is still an exception. Even in 2022, the name was given very rarely - in fact, only 41 times in the entire USA. So a Sander of 2022 will need very good binoculars to spot the next namesake of the same age.
The first name Sander is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 121 Americans in total bear this name. And these 121 men are located in only four states: California, Florida, New York and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Sander and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Sander in relation to it’s male population is California. And yet even there, only one in 276,808 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Sander present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter S is a quite popular first letter for boys’ names. Because: 5.9% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Sander is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
This means that with 5.9% of all boys' names that begin with an S, this first letter is much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the boys’ names starting with S is Steven.
If your name is Sander and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Sander, you can simply say:
Sun
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Sander
Sander
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Sander sounds like this: