Andersen
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births · #3,949 for boys in 2025, 27 births
Given to boys 73.8% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 50 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 948since 1988
Andersen over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 | #3,949 | 27 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 | #4,433 | 23 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #3,774 | 29 |
| 2021 | #6,967 | 16 | #4,011 | 26 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 | #3,570 | 30 |
| 2019 | #8,138 | 13 | #3,259 | 35 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 | #2,748 | 44 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #2,672 | 46 |
| 2016 | #5,985 | 21 | #2,551 | 49 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | #2,486 | 50 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #2,929 | 39 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #2,763 | 42 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #2,950 | 39 |
| 2010 | #12,276 | 8 | #2,958 | 39 |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | #2,560 | 49 |
| 2008 | #10,084 | 11 | #2,788 | 43 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #3,083 | 35 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #3,528 | 27 |
| 2004 | #14,179 | 6 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | — | #3,455 | 20 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,878 | 12 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #11,778 | 6 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,872 | 11 | |
| 1991 | — | #6,519 | 7 | |
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First appearance
1988
The first year at least five boys were named Andersen! It came in at #7,270, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1988–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 484 spots since 2024 (#4,433 → #3,949)
- 379 spots since 2020 (#3,570 → #3,949)
- 1,463 spots since 2015 (#2,486 → #3,949)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2015 at #2,486 (50 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 38,335
- Highest: 1 in 38,335 boys born in 2015 were named Andersen (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 63,262 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 44.4% of all boys named Andersen (421) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2024
- Mostly girls until 2023, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 94 | #3,455 (1997) | #5,872 |
| 2000s | 278 | #2,533 (2007) | #4,037 |
| 2010s | 421 | #2,486 (2015) | #2,832 |
| 2020s | 150 | #3,570 (2020) | #4,277 |
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.
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