Last name: SANDS

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All you have to know about the last name SANDS

Last name frequency

SANDS : This last name is indexed 95,414 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

SANDS : English and Scottish: topographic name from Middle English sandes ‘sands’ for someone who lived at or near a sandy place or a habitational name from a place so named such as Sands in Carlisle (Cumberland) or Sands Cottages in West Hoathly (Sussex). See Sand of which Sands may sometimes be a plural form or a variant with excrescent -s. Compare also Sandes and Sandys.

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