Tandy
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet-form of the male personal name Andrew
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Tandy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 44K(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 66K
- GDGrenada≈1 in 70K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 298 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
2,208 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet-form of the male personal name Andrew.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world
(measured from records)Tandy 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 | 2,208 | 1 in 151K | 2.2K | Tandy | 298 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 2.7K | Tandy | 141 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Tandy | 23 |
| AU Australia | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 66K | — | Tandy | 79 |
| CA Canada | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 159K | 1 | Tandy | 52 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Tandy | 12 |
| GD Grenada | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 70K | 2 | — | 1 |
2,208 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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)Tandy is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, possibly an unvoiced form of Dandy, a pet form of Andrew; first attested Tandy de Jay 1221 AssSa
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In English, Jessica, British actress
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Tan«sha
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Irish, A form of the Christian name Andrew, Tandy is in Ireland since the fourteenth century, mainly in Co. Meath. MIF
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
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)- James Napper Tandyb. 1740IEIrish revolutionary and member of the United Irishmen (1740-1803)
- Vertner Woodson Tandyb. 1885USAmerican architect (1885–1949)
- Adam Tandyb. 1901GBBritish television producer
- Jessica Tandyb. 1909GBBritish actress (1909–1994)
- Richard Tandyb. 1948GBBritish keyboardist (1948–2024)
- Mark Tandyb. 1957IEIrish actor
- Meagan Tandyb. 1985USAmerican actress and model
- Megan Tandyb. 1988CACanadian biathlete
- Keith Tandyb. 1989USAmerican football player and coach (born 1989)
- Brad Tandyb. 1991ZASouth African swimmer
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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Tandy mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet-form of the male personal name Andrew. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Tandy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.2 thousand people named Tandy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled tandy.
- How common is the name Tandy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,208 people named Tandy in 2010, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Tandy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/tandyThe 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, “Tandy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.