Sand Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

Sand? Think of it as Sands with a different pen. In origin, the name means “one who lived on sandy ground”.

• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• Sand drops the “s” of Sands, a simplification that clerks often made.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Sand with 4,810 bearers, at rank 6,974. French civil records give 681 births under the name Sand from 1891 to 2000, peaking in 1941–1950. Births ran at 36 in 1891–1900 and 50 in 1991–2000.

Heraldry and the Sand name

Arms linked to Sands and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to. Get the complete Sand report, with a museum-style coat of arms.