How common is the surname Sandhu?

7,190 people in the United States had the surname Sandhu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,941 Americans. It ranked 4,900th of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Sandhu getting more or less common?

More common. 4,298 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,190 in 2010, up 67%.

The surname Sandhu

A Punjabi surname, carried by 7,190 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex S530

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sandhu is more common than 97% of them.

Origin

Punjabi origin

Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੰਧੂ (sandhū).

One of 39 Punjabi surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 7,190 people named Sandhu in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 42,941 Americans. That is up 67% since 2000, when the Census counted 4,298.

#4,900

rank among US surnames

7,190

people in 2010

2.4

per 100,000 Americans

+67.3%

change since 2000 (was #7,161)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,891	Lavigne	7,204	42,858
#4,892	Schlosser	7,203	42,863
#4,893	Ivory	7,201	42,875
#4,894	Lundgren	7,198	42,893
#4,896	Laplante	7,195	42,911
#4,898	Yao	7,192	42,929
#4,899	Salmeron	7,191	42,935

Who is named Sandhu

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

93% of people named Sandhu identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, 3.0% as two or more races and 2.6% as white (not Hispanic).

Asian and Pacific Islander 93%
Two or more races 3.0%
White (not Hispanic) 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Asian and Pacific Islander Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Sandhu

Sandhu has the Soundex code S530, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S530.

Other Punjabi surnames

All 39 Punjabi surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Sandhu come from?: Borrowed from Punjabi ਸੰਧੂ (sandhū).
How common is the surname Sandhu?: 7,190 people in the United States had the surname Sandhu in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 42,941 Americans. It ranked 4,900th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Sandhu?: In the 2010 Census, 93% of people named Sandhu identified as Asian and Pacific Islander, and 3.0% as two or more races.
Is the surname Sandhu getting more or less common?: More common. 4,298 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 7,190 in 2010, up 67%.