Names That Mean Sand
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The names
Sabbia
Italian
"sand"
If you're looking for a beachy name with an Italian accento.
Sharpay
Popular culture
"sand skin"
The name of the glamorous mean girl in "High School Musical", Sharpay is a spin on the dog breed Shar Pei, which means "sand skin" in Chinese. As such, it's a brilliant name joke skewering the…
Havilah
Biblical place-name
"to dance"
Though there are a few (male) people named Havilah in the Bible, it's also a Biblical place-name that can work as an original choice for modern girls.
Stuyvesant
Dutch surname
"drifting sand dune"
Associated with two prominent American families — New York's Stuyvesant family, for which streets and parks on Manhattan's East Side are named, and the Fish family, who used it as a given name.…
Sandur
Icelandic
"sand"
Also called an outwash plain, a sandur is a plain formed of glacial sediments deposited by meltwater outwash at the edge of a glacier.
Misa
Japanese
"beautiful happiness; sea and sand"
Common choice for anime characters.
Noya
Hebrew, Cherokee
"beauty, ornament; comfortable; sand"
A popular choice in Israel, Noya shares the appeal of Kaya, Maya, and Nia, while also having its own distinctive sound. Derived from the Hebrew noi , it means "beauty" or "ornament", although…
