Last Name SANDY

Summary/Contribute


Meaning	Local: Of Sandy, a parish in county Bedford.

Origin	English, Jewish, Indian, Spanish, French, Irish, Hungarian, Indonesian

Rank	5,621 (2000 US census)	5,477 (1990 US census)

Count	5,663 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

80.77%, or 4574 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
11.94%, or 676 total occurrences, as black,
1.59%, or 90 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
1.22%, or 69 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
1.64%, or 93 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.84%, or 161 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Surnames that make great first names

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Shortest last names

The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Census 2000: how many distinct surnames are there?

Even after applying various edits and acceptance criteria to the names, there are a sizable number of unique names in the population. Over 6 million last names were identified. Many of these names were either unique (occurred once)...