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Andor

#12,140 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Arndor

Andor has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 2022. In 2025 it ranked #12,140 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Andor, 2025

1 in 663,000

Andor over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andor: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Arndor

Old Norse

What Andor means

Andor is a variant of Arndor.

Origin, language, and formation

Andor is used in Hungarian and Norwegian Nynorsk. Its origins include Old Norse.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Arndor.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Andor is pronounced [ˈɒndor].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Andor between 2022 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,037 in 2024.

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 Andor?

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
#12,140
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andor 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 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andors were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andor was born before 2024 — so the typical Andor is around 1 today.

Median birth year
2024
About 1 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
21
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2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (21).

Is Andor 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
−1,103
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
83.3%
Peak was 2024 (6)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#11,037
2024

Spellings of Andor

Andor is not the most common spelling — Landon is, with 32.6% against Andor'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.

Andor around the world

Where Andor 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
    2015–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Andor by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#12,140
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#11,037
2024
Peak year
2024
6 that year
First recorded
2022
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Andor

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

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Sibling names for Andor

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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