Andes
#12,137 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Andes has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #12,137 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Andes, 2025
1 in 663,000
Andes 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Andes?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,137
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Andes 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andes. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Andess were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Andes was born before 1994 — so the typical Andes is around 31 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 41.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 29.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 41.2% of all recorded uses (7).
Is Andes 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 71.4%
- Peak was 1994 (7)
- Years since peak
- 31
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Andes
Andes is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 52.8% against Andes's <0.01%.
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.
Andes by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Andes
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Andes
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.