Şandy
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Şandy is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country, where 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”).
- CACanada≈1 in 1.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 1.7K
- ECEcuador1 in 2K
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 Şandy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- #611 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 573 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900,000 named Shanti, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Shanti in IN India, ID Indonesia, Santa in MX Mexico, 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)- Middle Englishsandi(measured from records)
- 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”).
Cited for this meaning 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 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Şandy 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #65 | ≈1,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 761 | 189K | Shanti | 170 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈160,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | listed | Shanti | 120 |
| BD Bangladesh | #308 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | listed | Shanta | 54 |
| US United States | — | 75,709 | 1 in 4.4K | 69K | Sandy | 573 |
| MX Mexico | — | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 200 | Santa | 109 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 448 | 16K | — | 29 |
| CA Canada | #869 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 8 | Sandi | 269 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Santa | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,171as Sandi | 1 in 969 | 2.2K | Sandi | 27 |
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; RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual); 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Şandy 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 Şandy a male or female name?
- Şandy 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 Şandy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 million people named Shanti in India, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Şandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Şandy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Şandy compared with other names?
- In India, Şandy is the 65th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%9FandyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Şandy” — the 65th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.