Sandy

Where Sandy comes from

From clippings + -y
— Wiktionary's entry for Sandy
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,876 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 1946
    Sandy Duncan born
    American actress, comedian, dancer and singer
  4. 1960
    Peak, #126
    3,647 babies named Sandy — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #193.
  6. 1983
    Sandy born
    Brazilian singer and actress
In the dictionary
  • A unisex given name from diminutives
  • A diminutive of the male given names Alexander, Sander, Alasdair, Sandeep, Sanford, and Santiago.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Sandra, Alexandra, and Cassandra.
Namesakes
  • Sandy · Brazilian singer and actress, born 1983
  • Sandy Duncan · American actress, comedian, dancer and singer, born 1946
  • Sandy Koufax · American baseball player, born 1935
  • Sandy Walsh · Indonesian footballer, born 1995
  • Sandy Powell · English costume designer, born 1960

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.