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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