Sandy — #3271 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sandy

The Social Security Administration has registered 69,017 babies named Sandy between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sandy currently holds the #3271 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1960, when 3,646 babies received it in a single year. Sandy is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 10,445 additional births since 1880.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sandy performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 22,711 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sandy shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 10,860 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Sandy in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sandy in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 69,017 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.