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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| 1880 | — | — | ||
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.
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 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 324,038 of them was named Anders, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,433 names at #15,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 5,782 of them was named Anders, which outranked 94.2% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).