Meaning not yet researched.
Andy: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 524 in 2025. Its best rank was #193 in 1964.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #193 in 1964; #565 in 2025. About 94% of babies named Andy in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#565 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1964, at #193.
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Andy: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 524 boys in 2025. Peak: #193 in 1964 · most boys in one year: 1,936 (2005).
In 2025, 524 US boys were named Andy, making it the 565th most common boys’ name of the year, down 74 places from #491 in 2024. That is 106 fewer than the 630 boys named Andy in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #193, reached in 1964. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,936, in 2005. For comparison, it was #323 in 2015 and #337 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Andy in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 58 babies with the name. In all, 95,492 US babies have been given the name, 1.4% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,999 babies named Andy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,504 US boys were named Andy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,060. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,260 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Andy ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #313 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), Andi (8,145 babies since 1880) and Andie (5,743 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Andee, Anddy and Andia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Andee (1,186), Anddy (69), Andia (58), Anndy (22), Anndi (6), Andea (5).
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 Andy in the open dataset we use.
Andy is listed as a nickname for Anderson, Andrea, Andrew.
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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 6 | #313 | #400 |
| Kentucky | 14 | #347 | #495 |
| California | 90 | #378 | #163 |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | #388 | #338 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #397 | #446 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #414 | #323 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #436 | — |
| Maryland | 11 | #438 | #251 |
| Utah | 10 | #441 | — |
| New York | 33 | #491 | #204 |
| Florida | 37 | #491 | #303 |
| Virginia | 15 | #499 | #346 |
| Georgia | 20 | #520 | #358 |
| Washington | 13 | #530 | #346 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #553 | #442 |
| Colorado | 9 | #575 | #481 |
| Texas | 53 | #588 | #343 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #592 | #347 |
| Tennessee | 12 | #594 | #555 |
| Oregon | 5 | #612 | #379 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #620 | #482 |
| Alabama | 7 | #624 | #342 |
| Illinois | 14 | #635 | #438 |
| Arizona | 10 | #639 | #625 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #659 | #220 |
| Indiana | 8 | #713 | #508 |
| Minnesota | 6 | #722 | #339 |
| Ohio | 11 | #754 | #729 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #783 | #538 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,121 | #673 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #4,462 | 524 | #565 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,392 | 630 | #491 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,055 | 604 | #501 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,899 | 689 | #449 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,731 | 637 | #466 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,180 | 757 | #401 |
| 2019 | 42 | #3,618 | 838 | #377 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,081 | 884 | #368 |
| 2017 | 32 | #4,398 | 881 | #377 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,144 | 1,060 | #327 |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,152 | 1,068 | #323 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,335 | 1,270 | #285 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,410 | 1,193 | #294 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,247 | 1,273 | #274 |
| 2011 | 18 | #6,876 | 1,273 | #275 |
| 2010 | 15 | #7,909 | 1,481 | #235 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,575 | 1,663 | #219 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,583 | 1,816 | #212 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,122 | 1,832 | #214 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,929 | 1,904 | #204 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,537 | 1,936 | #201 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,864 | 1,799 | #204 |
| 2003 | 16 | #6,914 | 1,638 | #216 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,270 | 1,730 | #207 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,765 | 1,796 | #204 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,072 | 1,711 | #208 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,852 | 1,572 | #217 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,140 | 1,447 | #223 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,190 | 1,425 | #217 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,861 | 1,292 | #232 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,457 | 1,107 | #255 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,131 | 1,137 | #254 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,057 | 1,152 | #248 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,027 | 1,164 | #247 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,455 | 1,041 | #260 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,485 | 957 | #274 |
| 1989 | 11 | #6,979 | 900 | #275 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,612 | 837 | #276 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,360 | 809 | #269 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,157 | 718 | #289 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,594 | 760 | #275 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,228 | 740 | #282 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,162 | 833 | #251 |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,937 | 927 | #246 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,828 | 969 | #237 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,253 | 967 | #238 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,439 | 1,012 | #225 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,582 | 970 | #220 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,548 | 973 | #223 |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,638 | 914 | #222 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,602 | 926 | #221 |
| 1974 | — | — | 897 | #231 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,593 | 775 | #253 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,802 | 772 | #258 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,561 | 846 | #262 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,768 | 953 | #244 |
| 1969 | 13 | #3,961 | 944 | #238 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,498 | 907 | #236 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,635 | 941 | #232 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,507 | 997 | #221 |
| 1965 | 11 | #3,958 | 1,175 | #208 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,382 | 1,470 | #193 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,467 | 1,482 | #200 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,018 | 1,419 | #206 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,063 | 1,374 | #208 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,434 | 1,429 | #201 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,341 | 1,309 | #212 |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,757 | 1,136 | #229 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,703 | 980 | #244 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,981 | 673 | #283 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,383 | 575 | #304 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,668 | 500 | #323 |
| 1953 | — | — | 471 | #326 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,584 | 424 | #335 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,025 | 427 | #331 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,433 | 402 | #337 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,250 | 456 | #320 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,214 | 487 | #308 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,455 | 457 | #319 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,435 | 429 | #311 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,397 | 346 | #319 |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,696 | 329 | #334 |
| 1943 | — | — | 344 | #329 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,134 | 323 | #338 |
| 1941 | — | — | 278 | #349 |
| 1940 | 6 | #3,878 | 257 | #355 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,157 | 252 | #349 |
| 1938 | — | — | 243 | #356 |
| 1937 | — | — | 232 | #352 |
| 1936 | — | — | 224 | #361 |
| 1935 | 8 | #3,162 | 218 | #365 |
| 1934 | 6 | #3,824 | 211 | #374 |
| 1933 | — | — | 232 | #355 |
| 1932 | — | — | 217 | #381 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,504 | 243 | #358 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,572 | 257 | #357 |
| 1929 | — | — | 255 | #352 |
| 1928 | — | — | 258 | #359 |
| 1927 | — | — | 305 | #326 |
| 1926 | — | — | 245 | #372 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,001 | 254 | #374 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,465 | 266 | #368 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,391 | 291 | #345 |
| 1922 | — | — | 303 | #336 |
| 1921 | — | — | 315 | #336 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,006 | 314 | #327 |
| 1919 | 5 | #4,847 | 285 | #334 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,302 | 361 | #284 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,622 | 298 | #307 |
| 1916 | — | — | 291 | #305 |
| 1915 | — | — | 277 | #305 |
| 1914 | — | — | 225 | #302 |
| 1913 | — | — | 150 | #333 |
| 1912 | — | — | 113 | #363 |
| 1911 | — | — | 63 | #344 |
| 1910 | — | — | 76 | #278 |
| 1909 | — | — | 53 | #315 |
| 1908 | — | — | 56 | #290 |
| 1907 | — | — | 55 | #284 |
| 1906 | — | — | 45 | #304 |
| 1905 | — | — | 38 | #322 |
| 1904 | — | — | 46 | #277 |
| 1903 | — | — | 45 | #278 |
| 1902 | — | — | 42 | #292 |
| 1901 | — | — | 34 | #302 |
| 1900 | — | — | 54 | #281 |
| 1899 | — | — | 41 | #266 |
| 1898 | — | — | 40 | #288 |
| 1897 | — | — | 50 | #244 |
| 1896 | — | — | 45 | #270 |
| 1895 | — | — | 39 | #282 |
| 1894 | — | — | 44 | #261 |
| 1893 | — | — | 51 | #241 |
| 1892 | — | — | 73 | #204 |
| 1891 | — | — | 59 | #204 |
| 1890 | — | — | 53 | #226 |
| 1889 | — | — | 45 | #242 |
| 1888 | — | — | 60 | #226 |
| 1887 | — | — | 54 | #210 |
| 1886 | — | — | 49 | #243 |
| 1885 | — | — | 55 | #217 |
| 1884 | — | — | 55 | #227 |
| 1883 | — | — | 43 | #246 |
| 1882 | — | — | 51 | #231 |
| 1881 | — | — | 58 | #193 |
| 1880 | — | — | 58 | #209 |
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).