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How popular is the name Sandy?
Births per year, rank history and how many Sandies are alive today.
Sandy (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 3333rd in 2025 and given to 7 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 2012, when 13 babies were given the name, the 2095th most popular that year. Sandy is one spelling of a name also recorded as Sandi; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Sandy you are most likely to meet is around 22 years old. Half of all Sandies born in England and Wales are between 12 and 30, and there are at least 270 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Sandy - on average, only one in every 1,167 such rooms contains a Sandy.
How many babies are named Sandy each year?
Includes all spellings: Sandy, Sandi. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Sandy spelling rank?
Where does the Sandi spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Sandy most popular?
Sandy peaked in 2012, when 13 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Sandy?
At least 270 people named Sandy in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Sandy?
Most living Sandies are between 12 and 30; the most common age is about 22.
Is Sandy becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.