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Ander

#728 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Andreas

Ander has been given to 4,549 babies in the U.S. since 1908. In 2025 it ranked #728 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 516 recorded.

Babies named Ander, 2025

1 in 9,080

Ander over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ander: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Andreas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Ander means

Ander is a form of Andreas.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Ander → Andreas. The family’s meaning is “manly”, recorded in English with the source elements andreîos.

Origin, language, and formation

Ander is used in Basque and Scots.

Ander is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andreas and Andrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Basque, Ander is pronounced /ander/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,549 boys were recorded with the name Ander between 1908 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 516 in 2023; its best national rank was #566 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #624 in 2020 to #728 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,334 in 2015 to #728 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Ander?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,080
365 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,680
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#728
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,297 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ander sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,297 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ander. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Anders were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ander was born before 2021 — so the typical Ander is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
60.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
4,342
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 60.3% of all recorded uses (2,742).

Is Ander rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−143
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−104
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+606
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.77×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
70.7%
Peak was 2023 (516)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#566
2023

Spellings of Ander

Ander is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 47.3% against Ander's 0.16%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Ander is used

Across 2016–2025, Ander was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 2,439 boys, against 1 in 5,126 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 33,333).

341 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 2,439
  2. 2Arizona1 in 2,778
  3. 3Florida1 in 3,448
  4. 4Utah1 in 3,846
  5. 5California1 in 4,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 4,762
  7. 7Colorado1 in 5,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 5,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Ander is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 58% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Ander around the world

Where Ander ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2016–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • France
    1975–2025
    #2,371
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2013–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Ander

People whose public names include Ander, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Ander in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Ander. Linked forms have their own page here.

AndorAndreAndersAndreaAndrejAndresAndreuAndrewAndreyAndriyAndrowOndrejAndreasAndrejsAndriusAndrzejAndréAnttiDrejcAndrásAndrésAnndraOndřejAndréas

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Ander by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#728
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 104
Best rank ever
#566
2023
Peak year
2023
516 that year
First recorded
1908
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,549
Count in 2025
365

Names similar to Ander

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AndreaAndreiAndreyAndersAndruAndraeAndraAndenElderAndrezAndreasEnderAndreeNaderEderAndiAlderAndryAndrikRiderWilderWylderAndonCalder

Names with a curve like Ander

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Ander, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Ander

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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