Sandy
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen. 2. from the ON personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various cpd names with a first element that is either sand truth or sandr sand
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/sændi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Sandy is a 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.
- 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 Sandy 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)
- #611 (measured from records)
- 6 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 573 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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 GT Guatemala, LV Latvia, Sandi in CA Canada, SI Slovenia and סנדי in FR France.
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)
so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen. 2. from the ON personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various cpd names with a first element that is either sand truth or sandr sand. Sanftleben see Senf
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
How Sandy is read(measured from records)
Sandy is one spelling over 2 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.
- English70%
so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen. 2. from the ON personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various cpd names with a first element that is either sand truth or sandr sand. Sanftleben see Senf
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Covered with sand.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Greek; protector/helper of mankind
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- French7.6%
Hypocoristique de Sandra/Alexandra; du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Diminutif de Sandra/Alexandra; parfois unisexe.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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 in the world(measured from records)
Sandy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | listed | Shanti | 120 |
| US United States | — | 75,709 | 1 in 4.4K | 69K | Sandy | 573 |
| BD Bangladesh | #308 | ≈47,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | listed | Shanta | 54 |
| FR France | — | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 16K | סנדי | 8 |
| CA Canada | #869 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 8 | Sandi | 269 |
| DO Dominican Republic | — | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 520 | 16K | — | 29 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Santa | 22 |
| LV Latvia | — | 5,721as Santa | 1 in 329 | 5.7K | Santa | 73 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 2,171as Sandi | 1 in 969 | 2.2K | Sandi | 27 |
| IN India | #65 | — | — | 189K | Shanti | 170 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Sandy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Sandy är en från början engelsk smekform till → Alexandra. Namnet gavs till såväl flickor som pojkar på 1800-talet i Sverige, tidigast på Fårö.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
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)
- Alexander Courageb. 1919USnot in their usual nameAmerican orchestrator, arranger, and composer of music, primary for television and film (1919-2008)
- Sandy Koufaxb. 1935USAmerican baseball player (born 1935)
- Sandy Bergerb. 1945USUS National Security Advisor (1945–2015)
- Sandy Duncanb. 1946USAmerican actress, comedian, dancer and singer (born 1946)
- Sandy Martinb. 1950USAmerican actress
- Sandy Johnsonb. 1953GBBritish television director
- Sandy Powellb. 1960GBEnglish costume designer
- Sendi Barb. 1976ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli actress and model
- Sandy Möllingb. 1981DEGerman singer and actress
- Sandy Walshb. 1995BEIndonesian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 112 sources across 57 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 69K | #689 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 16K | #3,241 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 6.6K | #689 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2007 | 2.2K | #2,537 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 55 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 7 | #3,113 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 5 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 1 | #2,418 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Sandy mean, and where does it come from?
- so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen. 2. from the ON personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various cpd names with a first element that is either sand truth or sandr sand. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How common is the name Sandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 75,709 people named Sandy in 2020, about 1 in 4.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Sandy compared with other names?
- In India, Sandy is the 65th most common given name of 3,760,348 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Sandy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 112 thousand people named Sandy in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled shanti.
- How do you pronounce Sandy?
- A machine transcription gives /sændi/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/sandyThe 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, “Sandy” — the 65th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.