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Andre vs Andrea

American parents have registered 451,448 Andreas since 1880, against 132,861 Andres. Andrea is still ahead, with 1,333 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andre against Andrea, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andre Andrea

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

Of the 144 years in which either name was published, Andrea for 143 years and Andre for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Andre Andrea
Total US births 132,861451,448
Most in one year 2,57311,840
Babies in 2025 8681,333
Estimated living today 120,000418,000
Median age today 3642
Peak year 19701981
Best rank 134th boys24th girls
Rank in 2025 368th235th
First recorded 18801881
Girls / boys 2,205 / 130,656445,419 / 6,029

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 Andreas alive today are over 42; half the Andres are over 36. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Andre Andrea
France 713,190 André67,070 Andréa
Italy 410187,062
Norway 6,7658,136
Austria 5026,937
New Zealand 1275,003
England and Wales 2,6542,145
Ireland 1803,277
Switzerland 992 André2,190
Belgium 364 André2,417
Scotland 301,934
Sweden 1,143 André653
Poland 28 André487
Northern Ireland 14140

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: Andre and Andrea.