Meaning not yet researched.
Anders: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 232 in 2025. Its best rank was #750 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #750 in 2014; #984 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Anders in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#984 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #750.
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Anders: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 232 boys in 2025. Peak: #750 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 316 (2014).
In 2025, 232 US boys were named Anders, making it the 984th most common boys’ name of the year, down 152 places from #832 in 2024. That is 66 fewer than the 298 boys named Anders in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #750, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 316. For comparison, it was #797 in 2015 and #2,210 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Anders in 106 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 5 babies. In all, 8,031 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,592 babies named Anders.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,737 US boys were named Anders; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 298. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,362 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Anders ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #252 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Andrew (1,334,415 babies since 1880), Andrea (451,448 babies since 1880), Andre (132,861 babies since 1880) and Andres (96,733 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Anders in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 24 | #252 | #233 |
| Utah | 16 | #304 | #339 |
| Idaho | 5 | #439 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #574 | #693 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #685 | #399 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #697 | #630 |
| Washington | 8 | #740 | #381 |
| Alabama | 5 | #770 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #782 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #832 | #813 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #847 | #743 |
| Illinois | 9 | #873 | #897 |
| Missouri | 5 | #874 | #822 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #943 | #997 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,021 | #1,212 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,095 | #891 |
| Texas | 20 | #1,099 | #1,152 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,103 | — |
| California | 16 | #1,198 | #807 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,357 | #1,383 |
| New York | 5 | #1,778 | #1,359 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 232 | #984 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,473 | 298 | #832 |
| 2023 | — | — | 287 | #846 |
| 2022 | — | — | 283 | #855 |
| 2021 | — | — | 262 | #884 |
| 2020 | — | — | 278 | #827 |
| 2019 | — | — | 239 | #917 |
| 2018 | — | — | 290 | #787 |
| 2017 | — | — | 290 | #794 |
| 2016 | — | — | 278 | #820 |
| 2015 | — | — | 293 | #797 |
| 2014 | — | — | 316 | #750 |
| 2013 | — | — | 235 | #886 |
| 2012 | — | — | 230 | #902 |
| 2011 | — | — | 207 | #957 |
| 2010 | — | — | 214 | #940 |
| 2009 | — | — | 137 | #1,278 |
| 2008 | — | — | 174 | #1,074 |
| 2007 | — | — | 153 | #1,157 |
| 2006 | — | — | 186 | #994 |
| 2005 | — | — | 127 | #1,245 |
| 2004 | — | — | 139 | #1,132 |
| 2003 | — | — | 153 | #1,030 |
| 2002 | — | — | 118 | #1,184 |
| 2001 | — | — | 109 | #1,222 |
| 2000 | — | — | 133 | #1,070 |
| 1999 | — | — | 123 | #1,086 |
| 1998 | — | — | 96 | #1,262 |
| 1997 | — | — | 91 | #1,264 |
| 1996 | — | — | 122 | #1,021 |
| 1995 | — | — | 102 | #1,133 |
| 1994 | — | — | 86 | #1,255 |
| 1993 | — | — | 80 | #1,266 |
| 1992 | — | — | 85 | #1,221 |
| 1991 | — | — | 87 | #1,192 |
| 1990 | — | — | 85 | #1,181 |
| 1989 | — | — | 72 | #1,281 |
| 1988 | — | — | 80 | #1,118 |
| 1987 | — | — | 68 | #1,161 |
| 1986 | — | — | 75 | #1,075 |
| 1985 | — | — | 67 | #1,133 |
| 1984 | — | — | 44 | #1,445 |
| 1983 | — | — | 60 | #1,167 |
| 1982 | — | — | 42 | #1,487 |
| 1981 | — | — | 48 | #1,362 |
| 1980 | — | — | 29 | #1,912 |
| 1979 | — | — | 38 | #1,533 |
| 1978 | — | — | 43 | #1,411 |
| 1977 | — | — | 32 | #1,670 |
| 1976 | — | — | 26 | #1,876 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,594 |
| 1974 | — | — | 21 | #2,052 |
| 1973 | — | — | 23 | #1,872 |
| 1972 | — | — | 24 | #1,821 |
| 1971 | — | — | 29 | #1,638 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,495 |
| 1969 | — | — | 23 | #1,730 |
| 1968 | — | — | 15 | #2,110 |
| 1967 | — | — | 22 | #1,656 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,332 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,087 |
| 1964 | — | — | 24 | #1,615 |
| 1963 | — | — | 18 | #1,902 |
| 1962 | — | — | 18 | #1,896 |
| 1961 | — | — | 22 | #1,733 |
| 1960 | — | — | 21 | #1,773 |
| 1959 | — | — | 15 | #2,115 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,040 |
| 1957 | — | — | 17 | #1,953 |
| 1956 | — | — | 15 | #2,094 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,441 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,455 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,288 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,104 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,076 |
| 1950 | — | — | 12 | #2,210 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,035 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,612 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,380 |
| 1946 | — | — | 9 | #2,540 |
| 1945 | — | — | 7 | #2,754 |
| 1944 | — | — | 9 | #2,473 |
| 1943 | — | — | 10 | #2,410 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,224 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,151 |
| 1939 | — | — | 7 | #2,841 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,544 |
| 1936 | — | — | 10 | #2,304 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,304 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #3,799 |
| 1931 | — | — | 7 | #3,105 |
| 1929 | — | — | 8 | #2,991 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,229 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #2,940 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,259 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #2,806 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1920 | — | — | 10 | #2,770 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,411 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,111 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,738 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,552 |
| 1915 | — | — | 5 | #3,844 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #2,936 |
| 1913 | — | — | 7 | #2,283 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,557 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).