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Sandy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 55 in 2025. Its best rank was #126 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #126 in 1960; #3,020 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Sandy in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,020 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #126.
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Sandy: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 55 girls in 2025. Peak: #126 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 3,647 (1960).
In 2025, 55 US girls were named Sandy, making it the 3,020th most common girls’ name of the year, up 251 places from #3,271 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 49 girls named Sandy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #126, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,647. For comparison, it was #1,905 in 2015 and #344 in 1950.
In 2025, 12 US boys were named Sandy, making it the 7,112th most common boys’ name of the year, up 556 places from #7,668 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 11 boys named Sandy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #329, reached in 1886. The most boys given the name in a single year was 268, in 1954. For comparison, it was #8,610 in 2015 and #490 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sandy in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 79,530 US babies have been given the name, 87% of them girls and 13% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 24,676 babies named Sandy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 698 US girls were named Sandy; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 98. In 2025 that was about 1 in 29,223 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sandra (878,223 babies since 1880), Alexander (740,668 babies since 1880), Alexandra (246,320 babies since 1880) and Sandi (10,122 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Sandia and Sandye are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Sandra.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Sandia (77), Sandye (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #3,020 | 12 | #7,112 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,271 | 11 | #7,668 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,612 | 13 | #6,829 |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,783 | 10 | #8,195 |
| 2021 | 58 | #2,922 | 7 | #10,593 |
| 2020 | 66 | #2,593 | 9 | #8,610 |
| 2019 | 78 | #2,327 | 9 | #8,745 |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,359 | 14 | #6,278 |
| 2017 | 98 | #2,015 | 10 | #8,036 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,244 | 7 | #10,539 |
| 2015 | 107 | #1,905 | 9 | #8,610 |
| 2014 | 130 | #1,650 | 12 | #6,980 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,615 | 7 | #10,531 |
| 2012 | 138 | #1,582 | 14 | #6,251 |
| 2011 | 110 | #1,838 | 15 | #5,902 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,334 | 13 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 189 | #1,287 | 10 | #8,196 |
| 2008 | 228 | #1,132 | 13 | #6,698 |
| 2007 | 256 | #1,034 | 16 | #5,633 |
| 2006 | 250 | #1,025 | 14 | #6,036 |
| 2005 | 292 | #869 | 24 | #3,921 |
| 2004 | 317 | #800 | 16 | #5,199 |
| 2003 | 296 | #828 | 20 | #4,249 |
| 2002 | 317 | #763 | 18 | #4,462 |
| 2001 | 322 | #744 | 18 | #4,434 |
| 2000 | 386 | #648 | 22 | #3,734 |
| 1999 | 330 | #688 | 21 | #3,678 |
| 1998 | 361 | #639 | 31 | #2,697 |
| 1997 | 361 | #621 | 33 | #2,494 |
| 1996 | 405 | #573 | 39 | #2,176 |
| 1995 | 468 | #518 | 35 | #2,287 |
| 1994 | 486 | #514 | 31 | #2,488 |
| 1993 | 489 | #505 | 44 | #1,895 |
| 1992 | 531 | #464 | 59 | #1,522 |
| 1991 | 627 | #408 | 37 | #2,045 |
| 1990 | 694 | #380 | 51 | #1,632 |
| 1989 | 719 | #357 | 61 | #1,408 |
| 1988 | 565 | #416 | 67 | #1,261 |
| 1987 | 569 | #400 | 58 | #1,292 |
| 1986 | 609 | #378 | 59 | #1,268 |
| 1985 | 602 | #378 | 73 | #1,090 |
| 1984 | 701 | #333 | 67 | #1,107 |
| 1983 | 636 | #356 | 65 | #1,116 |
| 1982 | 765 | #317 | 72 | #1,080 |
| 1981 | 803 | #302 | 96 | #919 |
| 1980 | 858 | #289 | 68 | #1,101 |
| 1979 | 888 | #273 | 59 | #1,190 |
| 1978 | 734 | #313 | 74 | #1,010 |
| 1977 | 785 | #305 | 72 | #1,018 |
| 1976 | 787 | #291 | 91 | #877 |
| 1975 | 841 | #285 | 91 | #873 |
| 1974 | 814 | #293 | 104 | #785 |
| 1973 | 873 | #280 | 88 | #846 |
| 1972 | 1,056 | #255 | 109 | #764 |
| 1971 | 1,083 | #266 | 119 | #753 |
| 1970 | 1,246 | #250 | 125 | #736 |
| 1969 | 1,241 | #241 | 139 | #672 |
| 1968 | 1,397 | #218 | 147 | #625 |
| 1967 | 1,416 | #213 | 184 | #549 |
| 1966 | 1,680 | #194 | 209 | #528 |
| 1965 | 1,706 | #193 | 210 | #532 |
| 1964 | 2,347 | #168 | 194 | #570 |
| 1963 | 2,802 | #144 | 226 | #528 |
| 1962 | 3,054 | #140 | 232 | #520 |
| 1961 | 3,420 | #135 | 250 | #503 |
| 1960 | 3,647 | #126 | 175 | #593 |
| 1959 | 3,276 | #133 | 218 | #534 |
| 1958 | 2,567 | #156 | 220 | #518 |
| 1957 | 1,891 | #188 | 217 | #524 |
| 1956 | 1,127 | #249 | 245 | #487 |
| 1955 | 751 | #312 | 233 | #481 |
| 1954 | 649 | #332 | 268 | #445 |
| 1953 | 511 | #378 | 191 | #508 |
| 1952 | 440 | #395 | 209 | #488 |
| 1951 | 461 | #381 | 179 | #508 |
| 1950 | 515 | #344 | 189 | #490 |
| 1949 | 689 | #294 | 187 | #485 |
| 1948 | 932 | #246 | 158 | #529 |
| 1947 | 1,354 | #197 | 217 | #456 |
| 1946 | 1,179 | #206 | 176 | #482 |
| 1945 | 866 | #220 | 127 | #532 |
| 1944 | 820 | #229 | 119 | #558 |
| 1943 | 784 | #244 | 143 | #526 |
| 1942 | 677 | #263 | 113 | #586 |
| 1941 | 506 | #287 | 98 | #607 |
| 1940 | 382 | #326 | 90 | #630 |
| 1939 | 260 | #421 | 69 | #725 |
| 1938 | 181 | #497 | 69 | #741 |
| 1937 | 108 | #655 | 79 | #673 |
| 1936 | 62 | #869 | 74 | #688 |
| 1935 | 66 | #854 | 68 | #748 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,185 | 79 | #690 |
| 1933 | 31 | #1,306 | 75 | #692 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,418 | 81 | #684 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,448 | 72 | #725 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,404 | 75 | #735 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,882 | 69 | #780 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,929 | 71 | #773 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,247 | 85 | #707 |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,988 | 74 | #748 |
| 1925 | 16 | #2,364 | 72 | #778 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,348 | 74 | #784 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,888 | 72 | #785 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,339 | 68 | #827 |
| 1921 | — | — | 76 | #769 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,331 | 62 | #876 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,761 | 74 | #752 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,739 | 63 | #830 |
| 1917 | 5 | #5,219 | 69 | #758 |
| 1916 | — | — | 49 | #912 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,740 | 56 | #822 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,134 | 54 | #709 |
| 1913 | — | — | 44 | #691 |
| 1912 | — | — | 44 | #634 |
| 1911 | — | — | 24 | #639 |
| 1910 | — | — | 35 | #470 |
| 1909 | — | — | 31 | #459 |
| 1908 | — | — | 28 | #473 |
| 1907 | — | — | 27 | #454 |
| 1906 | — | — | 18 | #562 |
| 1905 | — | — | 33 | #363 |
| 1904 | — | — | 20 | #491 |
| 1903 | — | — | 14 | #614 |
| 1902 | — | — | 19 | #503 |
| 1901 | — | — | 13 | #587 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #513 |
| 1899 | — | — | 16 | #498 |
| 1898 | — | — | 17 | #519 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #778 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #632 |
| 1895 | — | — | 20 | #451 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #461 |
| 1893 | — | — | 10 | #698 |
| 1892 | — | — | 25 | #383 |
| 1891 | — | — | 19 | #407 |
| 1890 | — | — | 13 | #560 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #429 |
| 1888 | — | — | 22 | #402 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #389 |
| 1886 | — | — | 27 | #329 |
| 1885 | — | — | 19 | #421 |
| 1884 | — | — | 11 | #602 |
| 1883 | — | — | 23 | #356 |
| 1882 | — | — | 19 | #422 |
| 1881 | — | — | 14 | #483 |
| 1880 | — | — | 18 | #422 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).