Family name origins & meanings
- English (Peterborough) : habitational name from Sandal Magna in West Yorkshire, or Kirk Sandall and Long Sandall in South Yorkshire, named with Old English sand ‘sand’ + halh ‘nook’ (often referring to land in a riverbend or a hollow).
- English (Peterborough) : from an otherwise unattested Old Norse personal name, Sandúlfr, composed of the elements sandr ‘sand’ + úlfr ‘wolf’.