Last name: SAND

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SAND : This last name is indexed 109,431 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SAND : 1: English Danish Norwegian Swedish German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived on or near a patch of sandy soil from the vocabulary word sand (German Sand). As a Swedish name it was often purely ornamental and as a Jewish artificial. It is also found in France (see 3 below).2: English: habitational name from a place such as Send (Surrey) or Sound (Cheshire) named with Middle English sand sond ‘sand’.3: French (mainly Alsace and Lorraine): topographic name of German origin (see 1 above) or in some cases a derivative of the ancient Germanic personal name Sando based on the element sand ‘true just’.4: Dutch (also Van de Sand): habitational name for someone from any of various minor places called with Dutch zand ‘sand’.

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