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Sandford
How to Pronounce Sandford
Pronounced SAND-ferd /ˈsænd.fərd/Medium
Meaning: Sandford is a variant of Sanford, an English place and surname name meaning the sandy ford, from Old English elements for sand and ford, a river crossing, carried into use as a given name.Low
Popularity in the U.S. · SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880–present). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Sandford is a spelling of Sanford, an English place name meaning the sandy ford. Like many such surnames it became a first name, appearing for American boys only faintly, around 1947.
It was never common in this spelling, given to only about twenty boys a year at most. A boy named Sandford then would be in his late seventies today. It reads as a sturdy old surname-name rather than a current choice.
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What does the name Sandford mean?
It is a variant of Sanford, an English place name meaning the sandy ford.
How do you pronounce Sandford?
It is said SAND-ferd /ˈsænd.fərd/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Sandford a boy or girl name?
Sandford is used as a boys name.
How popular is Sandford?
It has always been rare in this spelling, given to only about twenty boys a year at its peak in the late nineteen-forties.