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
- Peak · boys
- 2015 · 50 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 948since 1988
Andersen over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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.
Where Andersen is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,965 · 1 in 27,088
Best ever in a state: #832 in Tennessee, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | #1,965 | 7 | 1 in 27,088 |
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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 Andersen
- 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)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2015 at #2,486 (50 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 44.4% of all boys named Andersen (421) were born in this decade
- 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.
Andersen in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
Top boys' names in 2020
More about 2020
girls
1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 85,082 of them was named Andersen, which outranked 65.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,850Zunaira20
- #5,850Zuree20
- #5,850Zyanya20
- #6,083Andersen19
- #6,083Aaminah19
- #6,083Aava19
- #6,083Abrar19
- #6,325Aamira18
- #6,325Adalyna18
- #6,325Addaline18
Tied with 241 names at #6,083; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,726,076 boys got a published name in 2020; 1 in 57,536 of them was named Andersen, which outranked 74.6% of the 14,060 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,497Yossi31
- #3,497Zhaire31
- #3,497Zidane31
- #3,570Andersen30
- #3,570Abisai30
- #3,570Able30
- #3,570Adael30
- #3,653Abrar29
- #3,653Akil29
- #3,653Alexandros29
Tied with 82 names at #3,570; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 380Vivaan#875 → #1,255
- ↓ 282Alexzander#890 → #1,172
- ↓ 268Reyansh#806 → #1,074
- ↓ 266Javion#949 → #1,215
- ↓ 224Kenny#862 → #1,086
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.