Sandor as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Sandor

What is the meaning of the name Sandor ?

The baby name Sandor is a Male name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Hungarian: /ˈʃaːndor/ (SHAHN-dor); English: /ˈsændər/ or /ˈsændɔːr/ (SAN-dor).

Sandor is Hungarian in Origin.

Sandor is the Anglicized form of Hungarian Sándor, the local equivalent of Alexander. It descends from Greek Alexandros (alexein ‘to defend’ + anēr/andros ‘man’), hence “defender of men” or “protector of mankind.” In Hungarian the name is written Sándor and pronounced roughly “SHAHN-dor”; outside Hungary the accent is often dropped, yielding Sandor.

Documented in Hungary since the Middle Ages and especially prominent in the 18th-19th centuries, it appears in literature and public life through figures like poet Sándor Petőfi and psychoanalyst Sándor Ferenczi. Common Hungarian diminutives include Sanyi and Sándorka; a related feminine form is Alexandra. Cross-language variants are Alexander, Aleksandar (South Slavic), Alexandre (French/Portuguese), Alessandro (Italian), Alejandro (Spanish), and the short form Xander; Shandor is a phonetic English rendering. Among Hungarian speakers Sándor’s name day falls on March 18. Contemporary visibility includes the character Sandor Clegane in A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones.