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Anden vs Andres

American parents have registered 96,733 Andreses since 1880, against 717 Andens. Andres is still ahead, with 1,744 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Anden against Andres, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Anden Andres

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

Andres 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 Andres had 2,403.

Side by side

  Anden Andres
Total US births 71796,733
Most in one year 682,726
Babies in 2025 71,744
Estimated living today 71090,000
Median age today 1522
Peak year 20042007
Best rank 1,815th boys152nd boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th200th
First recorded 19821880
Girls / boys 0 / 717449 / 96,284

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 Andreses alive today are over 22; half the Andens are over 15. That is 7 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 Andres.