Anders
Anders was given to 232 boys in 2025, #984 among boys’ names; 8,031 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,620 Americans named Anders and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Anders dropped 152 places in 2025, the #23 drop among the boys’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Anders by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Anders mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Anders is “a male given name from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, or Swedish, equivalent to English Andrew.”
Borrowed from Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, and Swedish Anders.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Anders?
#984 among boys’ names, 2025
Anders fell from #797 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.15 to 0.14 per 1,000.
316 babies in 2014, the peak
Anders peaked in 2014, when 316 boys were given it, #750 among boys’ names. The 232 births of 2025 are 73% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 232 | #984 | 0.14 |
| 2024 | 298 | #832 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 287 | #846 | 0.17 |
| 2022 | 283 | #855 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 262 | #884 | 0.15 |
| 2020 | 278 | #827 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 239 | #917 | 0.13 |
| 2018 | 290 | #787 | 0.16 |
| 2017 | 290 | #794 | 0.16 |
| 2016 | 278 | #820 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 293 | #797 | 0.15 |
| 2014 | 316 | #750 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 235 | #886 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 230 | #902 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 207 | #957 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 214 | #940 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 137 | #1,278 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 174 | #1,074 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 153 | #1,157 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 186 | #994 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 127 | #1,244 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 139 | #1,131 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 153 | #1,029 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,182 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 109 | #1,220 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 133 | #1,068 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 123 | #1,084 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,259 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,261 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 122 | #1,019 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 102 | #1,129 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,251 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,261 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 85 | #1,217 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 87 | #1,186 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,116 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 68 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,074 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 67 | #1,132 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 44 | #1,444 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 60 | #1,167 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 42 | #1,486 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 48 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,912 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 38 | #1,533 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 32 | #1,670 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,875 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,593 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 21 | #2,052 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 23 | #1,871 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 24 | #1,821 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 29 | #1,637 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,494 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,729 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 15 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 22 | #1,655 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,331 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #1,614 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 18 | #1,901 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 18 | #1,895 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #1,732 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 21 | #1,772 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,114 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 17 | #1,952 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 15 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,440 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,454 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,287 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #3,102 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 12 | #2,209 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,611 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,379 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #2,539 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 7 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #2,472 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 10 | #2,409 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 6 | #3,223 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,150 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #2,841 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,304 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,302 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #3,797 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,104 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #2,989 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 5 | #4,227 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,938 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,256 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 10 | #2,805 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,346 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #2,769 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,410 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,110 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #2,737 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #3,843 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,935 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,282 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Anders a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Anders has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 106 years of records.
Girls and boys named Anders: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Anders, and how old are they?
7,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 8,031 Americans ever recorded as Anders. The median Anders alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 6,937 people named Anders (71 women and girls, 6,866 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,134 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 20 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 173 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,560 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Anders born?
The states with the most babies named Anders are Minnesota, Texas and California, with 32% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 24 | #252 | 6.2× |
| Texas | 20 | #1,099 | 0.3× |
| California | 16 | #1,198 | 0.7× |
| Utah | 16 | #304 | 2.5× |
| Colorado | 9 | #574 | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 9 | #873 | 0.6× |
| Washington | 8 | #740 | 2.4× |
| Michigan | 8 | #832 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,357 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #943 | 0.5× |
Where Anders is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Anders is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1912 it was given 6.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Anders with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 114,667 babies since 1880, Anders is the third most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 232 of their 2,156 babies (11%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Anders
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Anders and names like it
- Compare Anders and AndresBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAnders peaked in 2014.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Anders since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Anders: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Anders.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Anders alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.