Shands

== English == === Etymology 1 === Two possible origins: Variant of Scottish Shand, with the English patronymic suffix -s. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Schantz. ==== Proper noun ==== Shands (countable and uncountable, plural Shandses) A surname. A ghost town in Nevada County, California, United States. ===== Statistics ===== According to the 2010 United States Census, Shands is the 19398th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 1393 individuals. Shands is most common among White (53.12%) and Black/African American (41.64%) individuals. ==== Further reading ==== Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Shands”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN. === Etymology 2 === ==== Proper noun ==== Shands plural of Shand