Sandy Family History
Sandy Name Meaning
English: habitational name from Sandy (Bedfordshire) from Old English sand ‘sand’ + ēg ‘island’ ‘dry land in a fen or marsh’. English: ultimately from the Old Norse personal name Sand(i) a short form of the various compound names with the first element sandr ‘sand’ such as Sandúlfr (see Sandall ). Scottish: from an abbreviated and suffixed pet form of Alexander ; compare Sandison .
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022