The surname Sandquist
A Swedish surname, carried by 1,377 people in the United States.
2 syllables Soundex S532
Origin
Swedish origin
Borrowed from Swedish Sandqvist, from sand (“sand”) + kvist (“twig”).
One of 133 Swedish surnames on this site.
Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How common it is
2010 US Census
There were 1,377 people named Sandquist in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. That is up 6.5% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,293.
Who is named Sandquist
Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census
96% of people named Sandquist identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.0% as two or more races.
- White (not Hispanic) 96%
- Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.7%
- Two or more races 1.0%
- Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%
- Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
- American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%
Spellings and sound-alikes
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Sandquist has the Soundex code S532, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S532.
Other Swedish surnames
Questions
- Where does the surname Sandquist come from?
- Borrowed from Swedish Sandqvist, from sand (“sand”) + kvist (“twig”).
- How common is the surname Sandquist?
- 1,377 people in the United States had the surname Sandquist in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 224,216 Americans. It ranked 19,590th of 162,253 surnames.
- What ethnicity is the surname Sandquist?
- In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Sandquist identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.7% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
- Is the surname Sandquist getting more or less common?
- More common. 1,293 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,377 in 2010, up 6.5%.