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Andhy vs Andre

American parents have registered 132,861 Andres since 1880, against 21 Andhys. Andre is still ahead, with 868 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andhy 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 1998, when Andhy had 16 and Andre had 1,786.

Side by side

  Andhy Andre
Total US births 21132,861
Most in one year 162,573
Babies in 2025 under 5868
Estimated living today 20120,000
Median age today 2736
Peak year 19981970
Best rank 4,197th boys134th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked368th
First recorded 19981880
Girls / boys 0 / 212,205 / 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 Andres alive today are over 36; half the Andhys are over 27. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Andhy Andre
France 5713,190 André

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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