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Andamo vs Andrew

American parents have registered 1,334,415 Andrews since 1880, against 15 Andamos. Andrew is still ahead, with 4,503 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andamo against Andrew, 1880 to 2025 0 10k 20k 30k 40k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andamo Andrew

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Andrew has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1960, when Andamo had 15 and Andrew had 8,225.

Side by side

  Andamo Andrew
Total US births 151,334,415
Most in one year 1536,429
Babies in 2025 under 54,503
Estimated living today 111.1 million
Median age today 6534
Peak year 19601987
Best rank 2,121st boys6th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked73rd
First recorded 19601880
Girls / boys 0 / 154,961 / 1,329,454

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Andamos alive today are over 65; half the Andrews are over 34. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Andamo and Andrew.