Sands

At the 2020 census, 17,989 Americans bore the surname Sands — 1,955th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 16,600.

By the numbers

People: 17,989
Rank: 1,955th
How common: 1 in 16,600
Per 100,000: 6.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 76.5%
Black, not Hispanic 12.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.5%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 1.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%

Notable people called Sands

Bobby Sands (1954–1981)Activist of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
Bethanie Mattek-Sands (born 1985)US tennis player
Julian Sands (1958–2023)English actor
Leevan Sands (born 1981)Bahamian triple jumper
Charles Sands (1865–1945)American golfer, tennis and real tennis player
Stark Sands (born 1978)American actor
Philippe Sands (born 1960)British/French lawyer, legal academic and author
James Sands (born 2000)American soccer player

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

Surnames like Sands

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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.