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Shandy

Gender
Girl
Say it
SHAN-dee
Origin
Modern

Shandy is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Shandy come from?

Modern: spelling of Shandi; modern American coinage, perhaps from Shandy or Sandy

Meaning borrowed from Shandi.

Is Shandy a girl's or a boy's name?

Shandy is a girls' name.

How popular is Shandy in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1981, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1962.

Half of all the girls named Shandy in the US since 1880 were born between 1978 and 1990, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 1989, 83% of the babies named Shandy in the US were girls.

1962Busiest: 44 in 19812010
Shandy in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20106#14,953
20095#17,288
20080–
20078#12,671
20065#17,163
20059#10,915
20048#11,617
20037#12,401
20025#15,426
20010–
200011#8,527
19998#10,338
199810#8,579
19976#12,065
199611#7,569
199511#7,509
199413#6,666
199314#6,257
199224#4,229
199116#5,653
199022#4,375
198925#3,887
198821#4,167
198730#3,098
198612#5,754
198533#2,803
198440#2,381
198328#2,974
198235#2,645
198144#2,265
198033#2,749
197942#2,273
197828#2,859
197720#3,611
197632#2,486
197525#2,881
197423#3,008
197314#4,154
19726#7,290
19718#6,004
19707#6,361
196911#4,417
19686#6,244
19670–
19660–
19650–
19640–
19630–
19626#5,859

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Shandy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/shandy, updated 20 October 2026.