Anders
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #15,293 · #984 for boys in 2025, 232 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 316 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,026since 1912
Anders over time
Rank among boys' names. Anders has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #984 | 232 | |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #832 | 298 |
| 2023 | — | #845 | 287 | |
| 2022 | — | #855 | 283 | |
| 2021 | — | #884 | 262 | |
| 2020 | — | #826 | 278 | |
| 2019 | — | #917 | 239 | |
| 2018 | — | #787 | 290 | |
| 2017 | — | #794 | 290 | |
| 2016 | — | #820 | 278 | |
| 2015 | — | #796 | 293 | |
| 2014 | — | #749 | 316 | |
| 2013 | — | #886 | 235 | |
| 2012 | — | #902 | 230 | |
| 2011 | — | #957 | 207 | |
| 2010 | — | #940 | 214 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,278 | 137 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,074 | 174 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,157 | 153 | |
| 2006 | — | #994 | 186 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,245 | 127 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,132 | 139 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,029 | 153 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,184 | 118 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,221 | 109 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,070 | 133 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,086 | 123 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,261 | 96 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,263 | 91 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,021 | 122 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,133 | 102 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,254 | 86 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,266 | 80 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,221 | 85 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,192 | 87 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,181 | 85 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,281 | 72 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,118 | 80 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,161 | 68 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,075 | 75 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,133 | 67 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,444 | 44 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,166 | 60 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,487 | 42 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,362 | 48 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,910 | 29 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,532 | 38 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,410 | 43 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,670 | 32 | |
| 1976 | — | #1,873 | 26 | |
| 1975 | — | #1,593 | 32 | |
| 1974 | — | #2,050 | 21 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,871 | 23 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,819 | 24 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,637 | 29 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,494 | 32 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,728 | 23 | |
| 1968 | — | #2,109 | 15 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,652 | 22 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,327 | 12 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,084 | 15 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,615 | 24 | |
| 1963 | — | #1,902 | 18 | |
| 1962 | — | #1,896 | 18 | |
| 1961 | — | #1,731 | 22 | |
| 1960 | — | #1,772 | 21 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,111 | 15 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,952 | 17 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,091 | 15 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,435 | 11 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,449 | 11 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,287 | 12 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,207 | 12 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,019 | 7 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,370 | 6 | |
| 1946 | — | #2,534 | 9 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,467 | 9 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,405 | 10 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,212 | 6 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,133 | 6 | |
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | — | #2,829 | 7 | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | #3,518 | 5 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,301 | 10 | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | #3,776 | 5 | |
| 1931 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1930 | — | — | ||
| 1929 | — | #2,980 | 8 | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
| 1926 | — | — | ||
| 1925 | — | #2,936 | 9 | |
| 1924 | — | — | ||
| 1923 | — | #4,239 | 5 | |
| 1922 | — | #2,801 | 10 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,765 | 10 | |
| 1919 | — | #3,391 | 7 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,096 | 8 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,732 | 9 | |
| 1916 | — | #2,543 | 10 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,273 | 7 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,544 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Anders! It came in at #2,544, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1923–1924, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Anders is popular in 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Dakota#192 · 1 in 588
- Minnesota#217 · 1 in 903
- Oregon#328 · 1 in 1,413
- Utah#331 · 1 in 1,398
- Wisconsin#432 · 1 in 2,244
Best ever in a state: #135 in North Dakota, 2017.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Dakota | #192 | 7 | 1 in 588 |
| Minnesota | #217 | 31 | 1 in 903 |
| Oregon | #328 | 13 | 1 in 1,413 |
| Utah | #331 | 15 | 1 in 1,398 |
| Wisconsin | #432 | 12 | 1 in 2,244 |
| Nebraska | #440 | 5 | 1 in 1,990 |
| Washington | #492 | 14 | 1 in 2,646 |
| Colorado | #549 | 9 | 1 in 3,062 |
| Alabama | #574 | 7 | 1 in 3,300 |
| North Carolina | #643 | 12 | 1 in 4,331 |
| Virginia | #773 | 7 | 1 in 5,945 |
| California | #797 | 32 | 1 in 6,990 |
| Louisiana | #809 | 5 | 1 in 4,912 |
| New Jersey | #875 | 6 | 1 in 6,921 |
| Tennessee | #926 | 5 | 1 in 7,240 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,195 | 5 | 1 in 11,846 |
| New York | #1,216 | 9 | 1 in 11,111 |
| Florida | #1,236 | 8 | 1 in 12,242 |
| Texas | #1,631 | 9 | 1 in 20,580 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Anders
- 152 spots since 2024 (#832 → #984)
- 158 spots since 2020 (#826 → #984)
- 188 spots since 2015 (#796 → #984)
- Biggest jump: 338 spots in 2010 (#1,278 → #940)
- Biggest drop: 163 spots in 2007 (#994 → #1,157)
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 2014 at #749 (316 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 2010–2025
- Highest: 1 in 5,782 boys born in 2024 were named Anders (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,362 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #749 in 2014, was only 1 in 6,079 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.3% of all boys named Anders (2,592) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 57 | #2,273 (1913) | #2,915 |
| 1920s | 52 | #2,765 (1920) | #3,465 |
| 1930s | 40 | #2,301 (1936) | #3,133 |
| 1940s | 69 | #2,405 (1943) | #2,832 |
| 1950s | 115 | #1,952 (1957) | #2,473 |
| 1960s | 190 | #1,615 (1964) | #1,882 |
| 1970s | 300 | #1,410 (1978) | #1,695 |
| 1980s | 585 | #1,075 (1986) | #1,314 |
| 1990s | 957 | #1,021 (1996) | #1,188 |
| 2000s | 1,429 | #994 (2006) | #1,138 |
| 2010s | 2,592 | #749 (2014) | #855 |
| 2020s | 1,640 | #826 (2020) | #871 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Anders in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 6,826 of them was named Anders, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).