Sandy

given name · English · Latin script

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

Sandy is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 42nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen.

rarermore common
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 17◐
  • HNHonduras1 in 17
  • BOBolivia1 in 20

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈119K ●

across 8 countries

#389 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
519 ●

3.9M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 329 ◐

Latvia

Spellings & scripts●

SantaLatin · Spanish●3.8M records
סנדיHebrew · Hebrew●3.1K records
СандиCyrillic · Russian●536 records
ชานิตThai · Thai●52 records
ΣανταGreek · Greek●3 records
산타Hangul · Korean●2 records
සාන්තSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Santa in SV El Salvador, PE Peru, ES Spain and 9 more, Shanti in IN India, MY Malaysia, ID Indonesia and סנדי in FR France, IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

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.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Sandy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#424,763,7191.9M rec.—189KShanti158
SV El Salvador—1,155,0781.9K rec.——Santa12
PE Peru—629,280150K rec.——Santa58
PY Paraguay—337,5187.4K rec.——Santa18
BO Bolivia—325,9661.7K rec.——Santa24
MX Mexico—318,49090K rec.—200Santa107
AR Argentina—198,015124K rec.—18KSanta72
GT Guatemala—187,9443.4K rec.——Santa21
HN Honduras—168,0523.3K rec.——Santa12
CO Colombia—111,1346K rec.——Santa95
US United States#37969,1541.2M rec.1 in 4.8K69KSandy519
GB United Kingdom#46152,85155K rec.—4Sandy194

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English1.1M57%
  • Spanish207K11%
  • Portuguese169K9%
  • French148K8%
  • 59K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English1,115,79557%
Spanish206,59111%
Portuguese169,0049%
French148,2858%
59,0123%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sandy is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name580K records spelled Sandy16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, France, United States, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Sändy, Sândy, Sandý, Sandy', SänDÿ

  • Indonesian given name32K records spelled Sandy9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Philippines, Malaysia

    Also written 'Sandy, Sändy, Sándy, Såñdy, Sâñdy

  • Hungarian given name4.6K records spelled Sandy5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Hungary, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Sändy, Sándy

  • Turkish given name4.4K records spelled Sandy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Säñdy

  • Croatian given name1.7K records spelled Sandy20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Slovenia, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Serbian

    Also written Sandi, Санди, Šandi, Шанди, Šandy

66 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●

Sandy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Covered with sand.

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

  • In French, Hypocoristique de Sandra/Alexandra; du grec Alexandros, « qui protège les hommes ».

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • In French, Diminutif de Sandra/Alexandra; parfois unisexe.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • 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

  • In English, Greek; protector/helper of mankind

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

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.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K1900195020003.6K · 1960

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Sandy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188018
188114
188219
188323
188411
188519
188627
188719
188822
188919
189013
189119
189225
189310
189419
189520
189613
18979
189817
189916
190022
190113
190219
190314
190420
190533
190618
190727
190828
190931
191035
191124
191244
191344
191454
191556
191649
191769
191863
191974
192062
192176
192268
192372
192474
192572
192674
192785
192871
192969
193075
193172
193281
193375
193479
193568
193674
1937108
1938181
1939260
1940382
1941506
1942677
1943784
1944820
1945866
19461,179
19471,354
1948932
1949689
1950515
1951461
1952440
1953511
1954649
1955751
19561,127
19571,891
19582,567
19593,276
19603,647
19613,420
19623,054
19632,802
19642,347
19651,706
19661,680
19671,416
19681,397
19691,241
19701,246
19711,083
19721,056
1973873
1974814
1975841
1976787
1977785
1978734
1979888
1980858
1981803
1982765
1983636
1984701
1985602
1986609
1987569
1988565
1989719
1990694
1991627
1992531
1993489
1994486
1995468
1996405
1997361
1998361
1999330
2000386
2001322
2002317
2003296
2004317
2005292
2006250
2007256
2008228
2009189
2010177
2011110
2012138
2013134
2014130
2015107
201686
201798
201878
201978
202066
202158
202262
202368
202449
202555

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

190019201940196019802000Alexander Courage, b. 1919Sandy Koufax, b. 1935Sandy Berger, b. 1945Sandy Duncan, b. 1946Sandy Martin, b. 1950Sandy Johnson, b. 1953Sandy Powell, b. 1960Sendi Bar, b. 1976Sandy Mölling, b. 1981Sandy Walsh, b. 1995
  • 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).

Evidence●

Attested in 109 sources across 57 countries.

Official registers attesting Sandy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202069K#689
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202416K#3,241
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202212K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—12K#1,507
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—11K#2,087
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20248.5K#235
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.6K#689
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020105.8K#5,914
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020005.7K#5,621
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020205.5K#5,994
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—2.6K#1,160
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20072.2K#2,537

Reference works 6

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,075 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sandy?
We estimate roughly 119 thousand people bear Sandy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Sandy have the most bearers?
Sandy is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled shanti.
How common is Sandy compared with other names?
In India, Sandy is the 42nd most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Sandy a male or female name?
Sandy 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.
What does the name Sandy mean?
Recorded meaning: so called from OE sand Sand + eg island, dry land in a fen.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 42nd most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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