Meaning and history
From an English surname that originated as a place name meaning “sand ford” in Old English.
20062006: 12 births, rank #6,460
2007: 11 births, rank #7,094
2008: 17 births, rank #5,249
2009: 9 births, rank #8,310
2010: 9 births, rank #8,139
20112011: 6 births, rank #10,808
2012: 14 births, rank #6,001
2013: 7 births, rank #9,655
2014: 12 births, rank #6,632
2015: 13 births, rank #6,324
20162016: 13 births, rank #6,349
2017: 12 births, rank #6,685
2018: 15 births, rank #5,770
2019: 18 births, rank #5,153
2020: 17 births, rank #5,235
20212021: 13 births, rank #6,335
2022: 19 births, rank #5,019
2023: 8 births, rank #8,921
2024: 12 births, rank #6,832
20252025: 12 births, rank #6,803
Sanford rose from #915 to #896 for boys between 1972 and 1973. Its highest annual birth count came in 1929, with 315 births.