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sandy Name Meaning and History

  1. habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, so named from Old English sand ‘sand’ + eg ‘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’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The sandy name in History

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Distribution of sandy Families in the US in 1920
Vermont: Less than 1% (0 of 789)New Hampshire: Less than 1% (3 of 789)Maryland: 2% (13 of 789)Delaware: Less than 1% (0 of 789)New Jersey: 3% (26 of 789)Connecticut: 1% (7 of 789)Rhode Island: Less than 1% (1 of 789)Massachusetts: 1% (9 of 789)Hawaii: Less than 1% (0 of 789)Alaska: Less than 1% (1 of 789)California: 3% (23 of 789)Nevada: Less than 1% (1 of 789)Oregon: 1% (6 of 789)Washington: 1% (7 of 789)Idaho: 2% (12 of 789)Utah: Less than 1% (0 of 789)Arizona: Less than 1% (3 of 789)New Mexico: 1% (10 of 789)Colorado: 1% (10 of 789)Wyoming: Less than 1% (2 of 789)Montana: 1% (7 of 789)North Dakota: 1% (6 of 789)South Dakota: Less than 1% (3 of 789)Nebraska: 2% (14 of 789)Kansas: 2% (17 of 789)Oklahoma: 1% (9 of 789)Texas: 3% (23 of 789)Minnesota: 2% (19 of 789)Iowa: 7% (52 of 789)Missouri: 3% (21 of 789)Arkansas: Less than 1% (3 of 789)Louisiana: 2% (15 of 789)Illinois: 5% (38 of 789)Wisconsin: 1% (11 of 789)Michigan: 3% (25 of 789)Indiana: 4% (28 of 789)Ohio: 8% (60 of 789)Kentucky: 1% (9 of 789)West Virginia: 11% (89 of 789)Tennessee: 1% (10 of 789)Mississippi: 1% (8 of 789)Alabama: 1% (8 of 789)Florida: 1% (6 of 789)Georgia: 1% (7 of 789)South Carolina: Less than 1% (3 of 789)North Carolina: 2% (12 of 789)Virginia: 4% (35 of 789)Maryland: 2% (13 of 789)Delaware: Less than 1% (0 of 789)New Jersey: 3% (26 of 789)Pennsylvania: 8% (63 of 789)New York: 5% (41 of 789)Connecticut: 1% (7 of 789)Rhode Island: Less than 1% (1 of 789)Massachusetts: 1% (9 of 789)Vermont: Less than 1% (0 of 789)New Hampshire: Less than 1% (3 of 789)Maine: 1% (7 of 789)
Number of sandy families
 46-89
 16-45		 1-15
 0
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Threads: 157 - Messages: 410
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SANDY, LONG, WILLIAMS, JOHNSON surnames "Sandy" Cooper 13
Sandy YDna JSBianchi 1
Sandy-Wallace Line-Tenn, Arkansas, North Carolina Renee 1
Henry Sandy NC b. 1802/03? Renee 3
John W. Sandy Florence Posey Candice 3
Children of John Sandy and Florence Posey candicesmith1 1
Florence M. Sandy smillerlong1 1
William Susannah Rawley Sandy Sara Brunk 39
Samuel Sandy and Mary Warham, 1705 Patricia Lobdell 3
Vincent Sandy Catharine Andrew GRANT_FAMILY 28
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