as a Last Name
- 5,970
- people in the U.S. have this name Get contact details for people named Sandy
Meaning & Origins
English: 1. habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, so named from Old English sand ‘sand’ + ēg ‘island’, ‘dry land in a fen or marsh’. 2. from the Old Norse personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various compound names with the first element sandr ‘sand’.
| 5,843rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 5,970
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- West Virginia
- has the most people named Sandy per capita
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