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Andre vs Andres

American parents have registered 132,861 Andres since 1880, against 96,733 Andreses. But in 2025 it was Andres that was commoner, 1,744 babies to 868.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andre 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

Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Andres for 81 years and Andre for 62 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Andre Andres
Total US births 132,86196,733
Most in one year 2,5732,726
Babies in 2025 8681,744
Estimated living today 120,00090,000
Median age today 3622
Peak year 19702007
Best rank 134th boys152nd boys
Rank in 2025 368th200th
First recorded 18801880
Girls / boys 2,205 / 130,656449 / 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 Andres alive today are over 36; half the Andreses are over 22. That is 14 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 Andres
France 713,190 André1,190
Norway 6,765286
England and Wales 2,654309
Belgium 364 André852
Switzerland 992 André95 Andrés
Italy 410464
Ireland 18015
Poland 2811
Scotland 304

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 Andres.