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Anden vs Anderson

American parents have registered 35,646 Andersons since 1880, against 717 Andens. Anderson is still ahead, with 1,079 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anden against Anderson, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anden Anderson

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

Anderson 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 2004, when Anden had 68 and Anderson had 399.

Side by side

  Anden Anderson
Total US births 71735,646
Most in one year 681,294
Babies in 2025 71,079
Estimated living today 71030,000
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20042012
Best rank 1,815th boys280th boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th363rd
First recorded 19821880
Girls / boys 0 / 7171,655 / 33,991

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 Andens alive today are over 15; half the Andersons are over 12. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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