Sandy
Sandy is a girl's name that peaked in 1960, when it was the 126th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,998th. About 65,000 Sandys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sandy boys named Sandy
Girls and boys called Sandy
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Sandy crossed from boys to girls in 1937, and has stayed there for 89 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 95% girls, and in 2025 it was 82%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 121 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 79,530
- Estimated living today
- 65,000
- Median age today
- 60
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 126th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,998th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 69,072 / 10,458
How old the living Sandys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 79,530 babies given the name since 1880, about 65,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 2,100 of them are children and 21,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a diminutive
From clippings +.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Sandys
- Sandy Dennis (1937–1992)American actress
- Sandy Koufax (born 1935)American baseball player
- Sandy (born 1983)Brazilian singer and actress
- Sandy Duncan (born 1946)American actress, comedian, dancer and singer
- Sandy Denny (1947–1978)British singer
- Sandy Walsh (born 1995)Indonesian footballer
- Sandy Casar (born 1979)French cyclist
- Sandy Powell (born 1960)English costume designer
People named Sandy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sandy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sandy is most concentrated in California (1.6×), North Carolina (1.3×), Ohio (1.2×), Michigan (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular girls’ names the year Sandy peaked:
Sandy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Sandy | 15,965 | 89th |
| France boys | Sandy | 2,240 | 212th |
| Scotland boys | Sandy | 488 | 124th |
| Belgium girls | Sandy | 400 | 244th |
| Italy girls | Sandy | 302 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Sandy | 203 | 2,095th |
| England and Wales boys | Sandy | 98 | 1,897th |
| Ireland girls | Sandy | 7 | 747th |
| Poland girls | Sandy | 4 birth registrations | 516th |
| Scotland girls | Sandy | 3 | 535th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Sandy: rank by region
In 2012, Sandy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Sandy | 413 | 7 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Sandy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands girls | Sandy | 2,613 | 2,831 |
| the Netherlands boys | Sandy | 148 | 212 |
| Finland girls | Sandy | 34 | 39 |
| Finland boys | Sandy | 8 | 10 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Sandy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 211 women called Sandy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Sandy | 13 | 0.021 | 2,417 |
| Palmas, Las | Sandy | 10 | 0.017 | 3,759 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Sandy | 16 | 0.016 | 2,974 |
| Málaga | Sandy | 15 | 0.016 | 2,524 |
| Tarragona | Sandy | 6 | 0.014 | 2,956 |
| Gipuzkoa | Sandy | 5 | 0.013 | 2,618 |
Listed in 12 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 40 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Sandy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.