Sàndy

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Sàndy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country. In India it is the 65th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).

rarermore common
  • CACanada≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.8K
  • IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.4K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Sàndy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)

≈110,000 people, est.

#611 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
573 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Canada, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SantaLatin(measured from records)
סנדיHebrew(measured from records)
СандиCyrillic(measured from records)
ชานิตThai(measured from records)
ΣάνταGreek(measured from records)
샌디Hangul(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Shanti in IN India, ID Indonesia, Santa in GT Guatemala, LV Latvia, Sandi in CA Canada, SI Slovenia and Sandy in US United States.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Sàndy: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sàndy
  1. Middle Englishsandi(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishsandiġ“sandy”(measured from records)

From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”).

Sources 6

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Sàndy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Sàndy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ID Indonesia—≈110,000 est.≈1 in 2.4KlistedShanti120
US United States—75,7091 in 4.4K69KSandy573
BD Bangladesh#308≈47,000 est.≈1 in 3.5KlistedShanta54
FR France—≈22,000 est.≈1 in 3.1K16Kסנדי8
CA Canada#869≈21,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K8Sandi269
DO Dominican Republic—≈20,000 est.≈1 in 52016K—29
GT Guatemala—≈9,300 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Santa22
LV Latvia—5,721as Santa1 in 3295.7KSanta73
SI Slovenia—2,171as Sandi1 in 9692.2KSandi27
IN India#65——189KShanti170

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); SURS — resident population given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Sàndy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written 'Sandy, Sandy, Såñdy, Sándy, Sandy'

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Sãndy, Sandy

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Sàndy under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Sàndy mean, and where does it come from?
From Middle English sandi, sondy, sandiȝ, from Old English sandiġ (“sandy”), equivalent to sand + -y. Cognate with Dutch zandig (“sandy”), German sandig (“sandy”), Swedish sandig (“sandy”). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 4 other sources.
Is Sàndy a male or female name?
Sàndy is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Sàndy have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Sàndy in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shanti.
How common is the name Sàndy?
In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Sàndy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
How common is Sàndy compared with other names?
In India, Sàndy is the 65th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Sàndy” — the 65th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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