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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Dutch : variant of Van den Zande (see Sand 2).
  • Dutch : occupational name for someone who transported or sold sand, from zand ‘sand’ + man ‘man’.
  • Swedish : from sand ‘sand’ + man ‘man’.
  • Americanized spelling of German Sandmann.

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