Andersen
#3,954 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Andersen has been given to 1,284 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #3,954 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 50 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% boys, 26% girls all-time.
Babies named Andersen, 2025
1 in 123,000
Andersen over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Andersen over time
In 2025, Andersen went to 48% girls and 52% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Andersen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 123,000
- 27 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 63,300
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,954
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 85,108 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Andersen sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 85,108 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andersen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Andersens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Andersen was born before 2012 — so the typical Andersen is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 44.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 87.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 948
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 44.4% of all recorded uses (421).
Is Andersen 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
- +488
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −383
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,466
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.54×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 54.0%
- Peak was 2015 (50)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Spellings of Andersen
Andersen is not the most common spelling — Anderson is, with 79.1% against Andersen's 2.2%.
Where Andersen is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Andersen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 611,294 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Andersen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Andersen is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Andersen was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,456,184 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Andersen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Andersen around the world
Where Andersen 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.
- Canada2007–2022#2,959in 2022
- South Australia1989–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Andersen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Andersen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Andersen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.