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Andrae

#7,221 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Andrae has been given to 2,163 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #7,221 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Andrae, 2025

1 in 301,000

Andrae over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andrae: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Andrae means

Andrae is a given name.

The naming story behind Andrae

Wikidata records Andrae as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q21069228, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,122 boys were recorded with the name Andrae between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 1982; its best national rank was #733 in 1982.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,994 in 2020 to #7,221 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,083 in 2015 to #7,221 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Andrae between 1963 and 1985. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1975; its best national rank was #5,999 in 1975.

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.

How common is Andrae?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,221
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andrae 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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andrae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andraes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andrae was born before 1985 — so the typical Andrae is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
36.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
25.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,122
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 36.5% of all recorded uses (775).

Is Andrae 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
+2,740
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,227
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,138
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.44×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.8%
Peak was 1982 (141)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#733
1982

Spellings of Andrae

Andrae is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 83.1% against Andrae's 0.13%.

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 Andrae is used

Across 1910–2025, Andrae was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 206,811 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 50,000
  2. 2Alabama1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Wisconsin1 in 100,000

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. Andrae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Andrae around the world

Where Andrae 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
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    1960–1999
    #539
    in 1999

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Andrae

People whose public names include Andrae, 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.

Andrae in other languages

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

Andrä

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

Andrae by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,221
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,227
Best rank ever
#733
1982
Peak year
1982
141 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,122
Count in 2025
11

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,999
1975
Peak year
1975
9 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
1985
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Andrae

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

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Names with a curve like Andrae

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

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Sibling names for Andrae

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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