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Andera vs Andre

American parents have registered 132,861 Andres since 1880, against 753 Anderas. Andre is still ahead, with 868 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andera Andre

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

Andre 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 1944, when Andera had 6 and Andre had 151.

Side by side

  Andera Andre
Total US births 753132,861
Most in one year 372,573
Babies in 2025 under 5868
Estimated living today 700120,000
Median age today 4936
Peak year 19811970
Best rank 2,723rd girls134th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked368th
First recorded 19441880
Girls / boys 735 / 182,205 / 130,656

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 Anderas alive today are over 49; half the Andres are over 36. That is 13 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: Andera and Andre.