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Endre

Boys' name

One; alone + rider, through Eindride

Endre has been given to 56 babies in the U.S. since 1965. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Endre, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Endre: meaning, origin, and history

One; alone + rider, through Eindride

Old Norse

What Endre means

Endre belongs to the name family reached through Endre → Eindride. Its meaning is “one; alone + rider”.

Origin, language, and formation

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrew, András and Eindride.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hungarian, Endre is pronounced [ˈɛndrɛ].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 56 boys were recorded with the name Endre between 1965 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1966; its best national rank was #3,065 in 1966.

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 Endre?

Endre had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Endre 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Endre. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Endres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Endre was born before 1980 — so the typical Endre is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
30.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
56
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Endre 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
0%
Peak was 1966 (8)
Years since peak
59
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
60.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,065
1966

Spellings of Endre

Endre is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 71.9% against Endre'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.

Endre around the world

Where Endre 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.

  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #232
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1953–1980
    #422
    in 1980

Popularity data from Statistics Norway and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Endre by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,065
1966
Peak year
1966
8 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
56
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Endre

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

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Sibling names for Endre

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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