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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 222,199 of them was named Andersen, which outranked 38.1% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,246Zuleica9
- #11,246Zykera9
- #11,246Zyrah9
- #12,276Andersen8
- #12,276Aamari8
- #12,276Aaria8
- #12,276Aarini8
- #13,448Aahna7
- #13,448Aaira7
- #13,448Aaleigha7
Tied with 1,171 names at #12,276; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 49,197 of them was named Andersen, which outranked 79.3% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,914Tayten40
- #2,914Timmy40
- #2,914Vander40
- #2,958Andersen39
- #2,958Adalberto39
- #2,958Adil39
- #2,958Aneesh39
- #3,014Aadyn38
- #3,014Aariz38
- #3,014Abrahm38
Tied with 55 names at #2,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.