The Sand surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 4,810 people carried this name — #6,974 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 61,300 people counted. That is down 7% from 5,162 in 2000.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 312 people named Sand live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Corrientes.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 283 people named Sand.
15 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 28 départements, most often Bas-Rhin.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
45 people named Sand live in Switzerland.
They live in 5 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In the Nordic population registers
4,344 people named Sand are counted in Norway, Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Norway publishes only surnames with 200 or more bearers. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown) · Statistics Norway (SSB, ssb.no), table 12891, 2025 — CC BY 4.0 · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In print
Sand in American newspapers,
1870–1910.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 2,674,003 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Sand,
with a public archive behind them.
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Karl Ludwig Sand 1795–1820 · military personnel -
Fredrik Christian Sand 1813–1871 · physician -
Hermann von Sand d. 1691 · publisher
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Oddmund Sand Tjeldøy 1090–1120
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Ingebjørg Erlendsdatter Sand Tjeldøy 1095–1120
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Ogmund Ogmundsen Sand Tjeldøy 1115–
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Sand.
- Sananikone 369 · U.S. census
- Sance 138 · U.S. census
- Sanche 184 · U.S. census
- Sanches 7,883 · U.S. census
- Sanchez 612,752 · U.S. census
- Sancho 1,186 · U.S. census
- Sander 9,090 · U.S. census
- Sanders 230,374 · U.S. census
- Sandler 4,583 · U.S. census
- Sandner 459 · U.S. census
- Sandon 216 · U.S. census
- Sandonato 192 · U.S. census
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