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    The surname Sandridge

    An English place surname, carried by 1,858 people in the United States.

    2 syllables Soundex S536

    Sandridge: #15,700 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Sandridge #15,700, 1,858 people Sandridge: #15,700 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Sandridge #15,700, 1,858 people
    Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Sandridge is more common than 90.3% of them.

    Origin

    English origin

    From Old English sand (“sand”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).

    Sandridge is a place surname: taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.

    One of 1,446 English surnames on this site.

    Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

    How common it is

    2010 US Census

    There were 1,858 people named Sandridge in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 166,171 Americans. That is up 2.0% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,822.

    #15,700
    rank among US surnames
    1,858
    people in 2010
    0.6
    per 100,000 Americans
    +2%
    change since 2000 (was #14,898)
    RankSurnamePeople1 in
    #15,692Milby1,859166,082
    #15,700Vandenbosch1,858166,171
    #15,709Tibbitts1,857166,260

    Who is named Sandridge

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

    70% of people named Sandridge identified as white (not Hispanic), 24% as Black (not Hispanic) and 2.5% as two or more races.

    • White (not Hispanic) 70%
    • Black (not Hispanic) 24%
    • Two or more races 2.5%
    • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.1%
    • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.0%
    • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

    Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

    Spellings and sound-alikes

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    Surnames that sound like Sandridge

    Sandridge has the Soundex code S536, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code S536.

    Other English surnames

    All 1,446 English surnames

    Questions

    Where does the surname Sandridge come from?
    From Old English sand (“sand”) + hryċġ (“ridge”).
    How common is the surname Sandridge?
    1,858 people in the United States had the surname Sandridge in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 166,171 Americans. It ranked 15,700th of 162,253 surnames.
    What ethnicity is the surname Sandridge?
    In the 2010 Census, 70% of people named Sandridge identified as white (not Hispanic), and 24% as Black (not Hispanic).
    What type of surname is Sandridge?
    Sandridge is a place surname, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from.
    Is the surname Sandridge getting more or less common?
    More common. 1,822 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,858 in 2010, up 2.0%.