Sándy

given name · Latin script

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

Sándy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. 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
  • ECEcuador1 in 2K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 4.4K
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 12K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

75,709 people, 2020

Sources
337 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

6 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Sandy in US United States, BR Brazil.

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 Sándy: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Sándy
  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)

Sándy 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 Sándy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States75,7091 in 4.4K69KSandy337
BR Brazil12,0171 in 18K12KSandy112
EC Ecuador8,5211 in 2K8.5K—37
SE Sweden7941 in 13K794—18
CR Costa Rica4111 in 12K411—32

75,709 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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)

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

  • Finnish name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland

    Also written Sandy, Sändy

  • Indonesian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written 'Sandy, Sandy, Såñdy, Sandy', Sändy

1 further group 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 Sándy 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 Sándy 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 Sándy a male or female name?
Sándy 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 Sándy have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 76 thousand people named Sándy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandy.
Where is Sándy most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sándy is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.0 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sándy?
In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Sándy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.

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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, “Sándy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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