Andre
Andre was given to 868 boys in 2025, #368 among boys’ names; 132,861 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 120,000 Americans named Andre and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 22 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Andre by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Andre mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Andre is “a male given name from French, an anglicized form of André.”
/ˈɑːndɹeɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Andre?
#368 among boys’ names, 2025
Andre fell from #279 in 2015 to #368 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.69 to 0.51 per 1,000.
2,573 babies in 1970, the peak
Andre peaked in 1970, when 2,573 babies were given it (2,510 boys, #134 among boys’ names). The 868 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 868 | #368 | 0.51 |
| 2024 | 966 | #350 | 0.56 |
| 2023 | 1,068 | #309 | 0.62 |
| 2022 | 1,167 | #294 | 0.67 |
| 2021 | 1,172 | #291 | 0.67 |
| 2020 | 1,193 | #282 | 0.69 |
| 2019 | 1,181 | #290 | 0.66 |
| 2018 | 1,292 | #274 | 0.71 |
| 2017 | 1,373 | #264 | 0.74 |
| 2016 | 1,400 | #257 | 0.74 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,327 | #279 | 0.69 |
| 2014 | 1,282 | #280 | 0.67 |
| 2013 | 1,322 | #268 | 0.70 |
| 2012 | 1,461 | #251 | 0.77 |
| 2011 | 1,495 | #240 | 0.79 |
| 2010 | 1,543 | #228 | 0.80 |
| 2009 | 1,647 | #221 | 0.83 |
| 2008 | 1,707 | #220 | 0.84 |
| 2007 | 1,834 | #213 | 0.88 |
| 2006 | 1,875 | #205 | 0.91 |
| 2005 | 1,828 | #207 | 0.92 |
| 2004 | 1,917 | #199 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,754 | #209 | 0.89 |
| 2002 | 1,698 | #209 | 0.87 |
| 2001 | 1,742 | #206 | 0.90 |
| 2000 | 1,796 | #197 | 0.91 |
| 1999 | 1,783 | #190 | 0.93 |
| 1998 | 1,767 | #193 | 0.92 |
| 1997 | 1,801 | #183 | 1.0 |
| 1996 | 1,964 | #173 | 1.0 |
| 1995 | 2,144 | #162 | 1.1 |
| 1994 | 2,381 | #148 | 1.2 |
| 1993 | 2,281 | #146 | 1.2 |
| 1992 | 2,390 | #140 | 1.2 |
| 1991 | 2,283 | #140 | 1.1 |
| 1990 | 2,295 | #137 | 1.1 |
| 1989 | 2,274 | #134 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 2,154 | #138 | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 2,092 | #136 | 1.1 |
| 1986 | 2,053 | #133 | 1.1 |
| 1985 | 2,294 | #124 | 1.2 |
| 1984 | 2,316 | #119 | 1.3 |
| 1983 | 2,089 | #126 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 2,198 | #124 | 1.2 |
| 1981 | 2,054 | #133 | 1.1 |
| 1980 | 2,083 | #133 | 1.2 |
| 1979 | 1,881 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1978 | 2,033 | #129 | 1.2 |
| 1977 | 1,971 | #134 | 1.2 |
| 1976 | 2,115 | #125 | 1.3 |
| 1975 | 2,104 | #123 | 1.3 |
| 1974 | 1,997 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 1973 | 1,961 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 1972 | 2,152 | #128 | 1.3 |
| 1971 | 2,415 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 1970 | 2,510 | #134 | 1.4 |
| 1969 | 2,065 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 1968 | 1,967 | #145 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 2,151 | #137 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 2,029 | #143 | 1.1 |
| 1965 | 1,805 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1964 | 1,896 | #164 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 1,700 | #173 | 0.84 |
| 1962 | 1,603 | #187 | 0.77 |
| 1961 | 1,500 | #197 | 0.71 |
| 1960 | 1,401 | #203 | 0.66 |
| 1959 | 1,279 | #218 | 0.60 |
| 1958 | 1,116 | #233 | 0.53 |
| 1957 | 1,058 | #234 | 0.49 |
| 1956 | 841 | #248 | 0.40 |
| 1955 | 686 | #273 | 0.33 |
| 1954 | 709 | #263 | 0.35 |
| 1953 | 622 | #280 | 0.32 |
| 1952 | 416 | #341 | 0.21 |
| 1951 | 378 | #350 | 0.20 |
| 1950 | 294 | #392 | 0.16 |
| 1949 | 250 | #427 | 0.14 |
| 1948 | 257 | #418 | 0.15 |
| 1947 | 219 | #451 | 0.12 |
| 1946 | 166 | #501 | 0.10 |
| 1945 | 157 | #478 | 0.12 |
| 1944 | 137 | #519 | 0.10 |
| 1943 | 130 | #550 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 137 | #522 | 0.10 |
| 1941 | 136 | #499 | 0.11 |
| 1940 | 116 | #546 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 92 | #605 | 0.08 |
| 1938 | 110 | #551 | 0.10 |
| 1937 | 115 | #541 | 0.11 |
| 1936 | 77 | #675 | 0.07 |
| 1935 | 78 | #678 | 0.07 |
| 1934 | 78 | #692 | 0.08 |
| 1933 | 77 | #668 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 69 | #756 | 0.07 |
| 1931 | 83 | #656 | 0.08 |
| 1930 | 74 | #738 | 0.07 |
| 1929 | 79 | #695 | 0.07 |
| 1928 | 71 | #767 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 75 | #754 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 58 | #875 | 0.05 |
| 1925 | 56 | #901 | 0.05 |
| 1924 | 53 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1921 | 47 | #1,018 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 38 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1919 | 36 | #1,160 | 0.04 |
| 1918 | 26 | #1,406 | 0.03 |
| 1917 | 27 | #1,323 | 0.03 |
| 1916 | 25 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,083 | 0.04 |
| 1914 | 26 | #1,128 | 0.04 |
| 1913 | 18 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,422 | 0.03 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,118 | 0.04 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,199 | 0.04 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 10 | #871 | 0.07 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,004 | 0.05 |
| 1896 | 7 | #902 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,006 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 6 | #816 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Andre a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 132,861 Americans recorded as Andre, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 868 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Andre: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Andre, and how old are they?
120,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 132,861 Americans ever recorded as Andre. The median Andre alive today is 37 years old; half are between 22 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 110,181 people named Andre (1,599 women and girls, 108,582 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 116,890 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 459 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12,200 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 30,100 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34,000 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 27,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,500 |
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 Andre born?
The states with the most babies named Andre are California, New York and Illinois, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17,003 | #284 | 1.1× |
| New York | 12,858 | #503 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 8,723 | #433 | 1.4× |
| Texas | 8,710 | #246 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 6,913 | #338 | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 5,989 | #461 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 5,620 | #443 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 5,137 | #411 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 4,645 | #284 | 1.2× |
| Maryland | 4,024 | #270 | 1.8× |
Where Andre is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Andre is most over-represented in District of Columbia: since 1910 it was given 4.1 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 Andre 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 145,302 babies since 1880, Andre is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 868 of their 980 babies (89%), again the 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 Andre
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 Andre and names like it
- Compare Andre and AndreiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sAndre peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Andre since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Andre.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Andre alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with AMost given first.