Sander — #4070 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Sander

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,547 babies named Sander between 1912 and 2024, spanning 113 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Sander currently holds the #4070 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 46 babies received it in a single year. Sander is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 79 additional births since 1950.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sander performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 273 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Sander shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 69 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sander in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sander 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 1,547 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.