Andersen
Andersen is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 27 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,107 among girls’ names and #3,954 among boys’, #5,477 among all names counting both); 1,284 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,270 Americans named Andersen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Andersen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Andersen?
#3,954 among boys’ names, 2025
Andersen fell from #2,488 in 2015 to #3,954 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 26.1 to 15.8 per million.
70 babies in 2016, the peak
Andersen peaked in 2016, when 70 babies were given it (49 boys, #2,554 among boys’ names). The 52 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 74% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,107 | 27 | #3,954 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,807 | 23 | #4,442 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,980 | 15 | #5,941 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,107 | 29 | #3,774 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,985 | 26 | #4,016 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,098 | 30 | #3,571 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,174 | 35 | #3,262 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,656 | 44 | #2,749 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,863 | 46 | #2,674 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,004 | 49 | #2,554 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,304 | 50 | #2,488 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,508 | 39 | #2,929 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,087 | 42 | #2,763 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,345 | 38 | #3,005 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,443 | 39 | #2,950 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,372 | 39 | #2,959 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,428 | 49 | #2,561 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,141 | 43 | #2,788 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,039 | 49 | #2,534 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,339 | 35 | #3,088 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,914 | 27 | #3,531 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,311 | 17 | #4,798 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,985 | 21 | #3,980 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,197 | 11 | #6,102 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,177 | 10 | #6,465 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,893 | 16 | #4,580 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 8 | #7,172 | |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,273 | 16 | #4,205 |
| 1997 | under 5 | 20 | #3,453 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 12 | #4,891 | |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,535 | 6 | #7,824 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,861 | 6 | #7,812 |
| 1993 | under 5 | 8 | #6,245 | |
| 1992 | under 5 | 11 | #4,879 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 7 | #6,538 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #7,321 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Andersen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,284 Americans recorded as Andersen, 26% are girls and 74% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Andersen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Andersen, and how old are they?
1,270 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,284 Americans ever recorded as Andersen. The median Andersen alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,056 people named Andersen (241 women and girls, 815 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,024 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 64 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 547 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 659 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 37,075 babies since 1880, Andersen is the second most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 52 of their 1,142 babies (4.6%), again the second most given.
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 Andersen
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 Andersen and names like it
- Compare Andersen and AndersonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAndersen peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Andersen since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Andersen.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Andersen alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.