Where the Sandoval name comes from

Sandoval is a habitational surname of Spanish origin, taken from the town of Sandoval de la Reina. The town lies in the province of Burgos. Its Old Spanish name was Sannoval. That name blends two Latin words: saltus, meaning a grove or wood, and novalis, meaning newly cleared land.

Spanish passed the surname on to both English and Tagalog, where it is also written Sandovál. In the 2010 United States Census, Sandoval ranked as the 233rd most common surname, carried by 128,948 people. In the Philippines it ranked 239th in 2014, with 30,354 bearers.