Bandy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bændi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bandy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 39K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 49K
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 50K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 343 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 19K (inferred from the name graph)
8,582 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Algeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bandy counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 8,582 | 1 in 39K | 8.6K | Bandy | 343 |
| DZ Algeria | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Bandy | 2 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 175K | listed | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | — | Bandy | 97 |
| CA Canada | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Bandy | 52 |
| CZ Czechia | 480 | 1 in 22K | 480 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | 273 | 1 in 20K | 273 | — | — |
| SG Singapore | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Bandy | 4 |
8,582 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bandy is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In sco, Bowlegged, or bending outward at the knees; as in bandy legged.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Polish, ribons; especially of linen
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, bandy (team sport)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Lou Bandyb. 1890NLDutch singer and conferencier
- Mark Chance Bandyb. 1900USAmerican geologist (1900-1963)
- Laurie Bandyb. 1911AUAustralian cricketer (1911-1984)
- Anastasius C. Bandyb. 1920USAmerican priest and hellenist (1921-2012)
- Way Bandyb. 1941USmake-up artist (1941-1986)
- Mary Lea Bandyb. 1943USAmerican curator (1943-2014)
- Moe Bandyb. 1944USAmerican singer-songwriter (born 1944)
- Don Bandyb. 1945USAmerican football player
- George Bandyb. 1975USAmerican politician
- Jett Bandyb. 1990USAmerican baseball player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 8.6K | #4,133 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 8.4K | #3,870 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 8K | #4,280 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 480 | #3,178 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 480 | #2,962 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 273 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bandy mean, and where does it come from?
- To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bandy?
- A machine transcription gives /bændi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bandy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 8.6 thousand people named Bandy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bandy.
- How common is the name Bandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 8,582 people named Bandy in 2010, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Bandy?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bandyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bandy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.