Andersen — #4482 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Andersen

The Social Security Administration has registered 921 babies named Andersen between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Andersen currently holds the #4482 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 50 babies received it in a single year. Andersen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 311 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Andersen performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 421 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Andersen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 80 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Andersen in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Andersen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 921 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.