In 2025, 154 US boys were named Andreas, making it the 1,276th most common boys’ name of the year, down 173 places from #1,103 in 2024. That is 41 fewer than the 195 boys named Andreas in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #734, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 221, in 2006. For comparison, it was #1,259 in 2015 and #2,025 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Andreas in 96 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1913 with 6 babies. In all, 8,679 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,864 babies named Andreas.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,626 US boys were named Andreas; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,091 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Andreas ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #771 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). Rarer spellings such as Antero are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Armenian, Dutch, Estonian, German, Latin and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.