girls:
69k births since 1914
#476 (92nd percentile)
boys:
10.4k births since 1880
#1143 (75th percentile)
overall:
79.4k births since 1880
#802 (90th percentile)
The name Sandy is the #802 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 79,403 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #476 (91.7% percentile) for all time with 68,968 births since 1914. For boys, it ranks #1,143 (75.1% percentile) for all time with 10,435 births since 1880.
Sandy has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Sandy has been given predominantly to girls, with 86.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 84.0% of babies named Sandy were girls. Interestingly, until around 1938, the name was more popular for boys (82.5% boys from 1880 to 1937), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (89.5% girls from 1938 to 2023).
For girls, Sandy reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 84.0% percentile (ranked #124) with 1,753 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 1,753 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1963, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Sandy ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 2.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sandy reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 36.3% percentile (ranked #393) with 130 births per million. The name was most common in 1905, with 230 births per million (ranked 11.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sandy ranks #903 for boys (0.9% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 3.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sandy".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Sandy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Sandy is pronounced as SAN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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