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Sandford

Boys' name

Variant of Sanford

Sandford has been given to 421 babies in the U.S. since 1912. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Sandford, 1972

1 in 449,000

Sandford over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Sandford: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Sanford

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Sandford means

Sandford is a variant of Sanford.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Sandford is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæn.fəɹd/ and /ˈsæn.fəd/ for Sandford.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Sandford → Sanford. The family’s meaning is “sand ford”, recorded in the naming reference for Sanford.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Sanford.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 421 boys were recorded with the name Sandford between 1912 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1947; its best national rank was #1,778 in 1947.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Sandford?

Sandford had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972
1 in 449,000
7 of 3,142,796 births
Among boys only
1 in 232,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1972
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
311,204 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Sandford sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1972 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 311,204 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Sandford. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sandfords were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Sandford was born before 1947 — so the typical Sandford is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
177
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1940s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Sandford rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (19)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,778
1947

Spellings of Sandford

Sandford is not the most common spelling — Sanford is, with 54.9% against Sandford's 1.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Sandford is used

Across 1910–2025, Sandford was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Sandford has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Sandford around the world

Where Sandford ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1947–1967
    #376
    in 1967

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Sandford by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,778
1947
Peak year
1947
19 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
421
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Sandford

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Sandford

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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