Sandy
Sandy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 48 births. Its best rank was 126th, in 1960.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 480.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19603,646 births
- Best rank
- #126in 1960
- Since 1914
- 79,462people given the name
The story in the numbers
69,017 girls have been named Sandy in the United States since 1914, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 3,646 births — 0.18% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 48 births in 2024, against 3,646 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1964, and the 1960s alone account for 33%. It has spent 71 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 10,445 boys have also been given it, 13% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Sandy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 33 | |
| 1920s | 123 | |
| 1930s | 796 | |
| 1940s | 8,189 | |
| 1950s | 12,189 | |
| 1960s | 22,711 | |
| 1970s | 9,107 | |
| 1980s | 6,826 | |
| 1990s | 4,752 | |
| 2000s | 2,853 | |
| 2010s | 1,136 | |
| 2020s | 302 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Sandy was the 126th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1960 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Donna. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Sandy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Suzypeak 1962
- Marybethpeak 1961
- Suziepeak 1962
- Jeanmariepeak 1963
- Darlapeak 1963
- Jackipeak 1961
- Geripeak 1958
- Beckypeak 1959
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.