The sandy Surname
sandy Name Meaning and History
- habitational name from a place in Bedfordshire, so named from Old English sand ‘sand’ + eg ‘island’, ‘dry land in a fen or marsh’.
- from the Old Norse personal name Sand(i), a short form of the various compound names with the first element sandr ‘sand’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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