Sandal

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Turkish: boat (water craft) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025

/s̪an̪d̪aɫ/(machine-generated) Turkish · model-generated

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Sandal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country: 1,838 people, counted by Instate.

  • NONorway1 in 3K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 22K
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 350K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. 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 (measured from records)

1,838 people

Record sources
65 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Norway

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Sandal

  • Turkish:/s̪an̪d̪aɫ/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

from Sandal Magna, Kirk or Long Sandall (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Peter de Sandal 1188 WhC (Lancashire)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

How Sandal is read

(measured from records)

Sandal is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Turkish54%

    boat (water craft)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English13%

    from Sandal Magna, Kirk or Long Sandall (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Peter de Sandal 1188 WhC (Lancashire)

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

    A type of open shoe made up of straps or bands holding a sole to the foot

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Hindi10%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Sandal in Hindi.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where the surname Sandal is found

(measured from records)

Sandal 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 Sandal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India1,8381 in 721K1.8KSandal65
NO Norway1,8141 in 3K1.8K—6
US United States3101 in 1.1M332Sandal43
DK Denmark2671 in 22K267——
SE Sweden241 in 425K24——
CH Switzerland241 in 350K24—1
FI Finland101 in 557K10——

1,838 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)

Sandal is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Šandal

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Ecuador, United States, Türkiye

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Sàndal

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Philippines

    Also written Sàndal

  • Arabic surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait

    Also written Ṣandal, Sàndàl

45 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Sandal is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Norwegian Nynorsk, a sandal (open shoe)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Filipino, leaning of one's back (on something)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In enm, sandal, thong, slip-on

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
1940196019802000Celal Sandal, b. 1942Mustafa Sandal, b. 1970Emina Jahoviç, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

(machine-generated)
FormalSayın Sandal,Dear , (English)
InformalSayın Sandal,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Sandal come from?
from Sandal Magna, Kirk or Long Sandall (West Riding of Yorkshire); first attested Peter de Sandal 1188 WhC (Lancashire) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
How do you pronounce Sandal?
In Turkish /s̪an̪d̪aɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
What does the name Sandal mean?
In Turkish, boat (water craft)
Which countries have the most people with the surname Sandal?
In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Sandal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled sandal. After it come Norway, United States, Denmark and Sweden; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Sandal most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Sandal is densest in Norway — about 1 in 3.0 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Sandal?
In India, the national register counted 1,838 people named Sandal, about 1 in 721 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, “Sandal” — ranked 3349th in India (Instate). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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