Andon
Andon was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 1,046 Americans have been recorded with it between 1979 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Andon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Andon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Andon?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,800, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
203 babies in 2004, the peak
Andon peaked in 2004, when 203 boys were given it, #864 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #7,800 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,310 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,029 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,125 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,315 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,675 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,864 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #4,751 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,367 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 17 | #5,298 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 33 | #3,304 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,068 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,633 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 56 | #2,285 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 57 | #2,262 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 50 | #2,531 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,186 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 55 | #2,337 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 75 | #1,823 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 82 | #1,646 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 203 | #864 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 138 | #1,110 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 6 | #9,447 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 6 | #6,972 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #5,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,278 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,654 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,313 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,095 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Andon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Andon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Andon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Andon, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,046 Americans ever recorded as Andon. The median Andon alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,120 people named Andon (10 women and girls, 1,110 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 985 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 823 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 177 |
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,051 babies since 1880, Andon is the most given (51% of them).
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 Andon
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 Andon and names like it
- Compare Andon and AndenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAndon peaked in 2004.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Andon since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Andon.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Andon alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.