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Sandman
The family I belong to, comes originally from Northern Sweden. The name is probably related to a place. For instance in the Piteå surroundings, there are a lot of places related to sand. The family is nowadays mainly spread over Sweden and Finland. You can, however, find variations of this name, not related to our family, in all Anglo-Saxon launages (Sandeman, Sandmann). It was also common in the Nordic countries that persons belonging to the priesthood used a latin form, as for instance Arenander (arena = sand in Latin).
Ralf Sandman