# Sands (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/sands/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 18,584 |
| US rank (2010) | 1,944 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 16,614 people |
| Change since 2000 | +0.8% (18,430 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named Sands in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 80% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 13% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.1% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 1.3% |
| Two or more races | 1.9% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Sands in the United States, The Bahamas, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

## People named Sands

- Bobby Sands, Activist of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (1954-1981)
- Julian Sands, British actor (1958-2023)
- Leevan Sands, Bahamian triple jumper
- Stark Sands, American actor
- Charles Sands, American golfer, tennis and real tennis player (1865–1945)
- James Sands, American soccer player
- Tommy Sands, American pop music singer and actor
- Doris Sands Johnson, Bahamian teacher, suffragette, and politician
- Matthew Sands, American accelerator physicist (1919–2014)
- Diana Sands, American actress (1934–1973)
- Ethel Sands, American-born British artist, socialite, patron (1873–1962)
- Shamar Sands, Bahamian athletics competitor (born 1985)

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Santos, Sandstrom, Sandusky, Shands, Sandquist, Santiago, Schmitz, Snodgrass, Santacruz, Smithson, Santucci, Schantz.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.