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Andrea vs Andreanna

American parents have registered 451,448 Andreas since 1880, against 874 Andreannas. Andrea is still ahead, with 1,333 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andrea Andreanna

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

Andrea has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Andrea had 5,531 and Andreanna had 43.

Side by side

  Andrea Andreanna
Total US births 451,448874
Most in one year 11,84050
Babies in 2025 1,333under 5
Estimated living today 418,000860
Median age today 4229
Peak year 19811989
Best rank 24th girls2,338th girls
Rank in 2025 235thunranked
First recorded 18811962
Girls / boys 445,419 / 6,029874 / 0

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 Andreannas are over 29. 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Andrea Andreanna
England and Wales 2,1454

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: Andrea and Andreanna.