Meaning not yet researched.
Andersen: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,489 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,489 in 2015; #3,955 in 2025. About 52% of babies named Andersen in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,955 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #2,489.
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Andersen: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,489 in 2015 · most boys in one year: 50 (2015).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Andersen, making it the 3,955th most common boys’ name of the year, up 490 places from #4,445 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 23 boys named Andersen in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,489, reached in 2015. That year also had the most boys given the name: 50. For comparison, it was #2,489 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Andersen, making it the 5,108th most common girls’ name of the year, up 702 places from #5,810 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 21 girls named Andersen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,108, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 25. For comparison, it was #7,307 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Andersen in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 5 babies. In all, 1,284 US babies have been given the name, 26% of them girls and 74% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 545 babies named Andersen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 324 US boys were named Andersen; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 49. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Anderson (35,646 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Andersen in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,108 | 27 | #3,955 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,810 | 23 | #4,445 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,985 | 15 | #5,946 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,112 | 29 | #3,776 |
| 2021 | 16 | #6,990 | 26 | #4,020 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,102 | 30 | #3,573 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,178 | 35 | #3,265 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,661 | 44 | #2,750 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,867 | 46 | #2,675 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,006 | 49 | #2,555 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,307 | 50 | #2,489 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,513 | 39 | #2,931 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,092 | 42 | #2,765 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,351 | 38 | #3,007 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,447 | 39 | #2,951 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,378 | 39 | #2,960 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,432 | 49 | #2,562 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,145 | 43 | #2,789 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,045 | 49 | #2,534 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,343 | 35 | #3,089 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,920 | 27 | #3,535 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,317 | 17 | #4,803 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,992 | 21 | #3,985 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,203 | 11 | #6,109 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,184 | 10 | #6,472 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,901 | 16 | #4,587 |
| 1999 | — | — | 8 | #7,179 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,280 | 16 | #4,209 |
| 1997 | — | — | 20 | #3,458 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #4,898 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,540 | 6 | #7,831 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,867 | 6 | #7,818 |
| 1993 | — | — | 8 | #6,251 |
| 1992 | — | — | 11 | #4,886 |
| 1991 | — | — | 7 | #6,545 |
| 1988 | — | — | 5 | #7,328 |
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).