Sandlin Family Crest and Last Name Background

Sandlin appears in national name statistics on both sides of the Atlantic. In the 2010 US Census, 8,421 Americans gave Sandlin as their last name (rank 4,206). That puts it among the top 5,000 US surnames.

Where the name comes from

Standard surname dictionaries do not settle the origin of Sandlin, so we research it family by family rather than guess. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes.

Arms associated with the name

Sharing the Sandlin name is not the same as sharing a crest; arms were granted to individual families.

Get the complete Sandlin report, with a museum-style coat of arms.