Anders

Where Anders comes from

Borrowed from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Anders.
— Wiktionary's entry for Anders
  • Danish
Along the way
  1. 1701
    Anders Celsius born
    Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist
  2. 1912
    First appearance
    #2,544 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1979
    Anders Behring Breivik born
    Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist and mass murderer
  4. 2014
    Peak, #749
    316 babies named Anders — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish, equivalent to English Andrew.
Namesakes
  • Anders Celsius · Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist, 1701–1744
  • Anders Behring Breivik · Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist and mass murderer, born 1979
  • Anders Fogh Rasmussen · former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO, born 1953
  • Anders Jonas Ångström · Swedish physicist, 1814–1874
  • Anders Zorn · Swedish painter and engraver, 1860–1920

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.