Last name origins & meanings:
- English, Scottish, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, and
Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived on patch
of sandy soil, from the vocabulary word sand. As a Swedish or
Jewish name it was often purely ornamental.
- Dutch
and Belgian: reduced form of Van den Sand(e), Van den
Zande, a habitational name from places such as Zande in West
Flanders or various minor places named with zand ‘sand’.
- English and Scottish: from a short form of Alexander.
- French: from a Germanic personal name, Sando.
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