Sandy

5,530 people in the United States were counted with the surname Sandy in the 2020 census, making it the 5,994th most common in the country. That is about one person in 54,100.

By the numbers

People: 5,530
Rank: 5,994th
How common: 1 in 54,100
Per 100,000: 1.9

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Sandy described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 70.4%
Black, not Hispanic 17.9%
Hispanic or Latino 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.5%

Notable people called Sandy

Sandy (born 1983)Brazilian singer and actress
Marco Sandy (born 1971)Bolivian footballer

People named Sandy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Sandy

Also a first name

Sandy has been given to 79,530 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1960. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.