Name meaning & stats
Sandy
Sandy means “defender of men”. 76,025 US babies since 1940, peak 1960.
What it means
“defender of men”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 1960
76,025 US babies were named Sandy between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Sandy (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
The most common spelling: 86% of the family
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1960)