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Andrea vs Andrina

American parents have registered 451,448 Andreas since 1880, against 712 Andrinas. Andrea is still ahead, with 1,333 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andrea Andrina

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 2014, when Andrea had 2,582 and Andrina had 17.

Side by side

  Andrea Andrina
Total US births 451,448712
Most in one year 11,84023
Babies in 2025 1,333under 5
Estimated living today 418,000690
Median age today 4233
Peak year 19811992
Best rank 24th girls4,382nd girls
Rank in 2025 235thunranked
First recorded 18811953
Girls / boys 445,419 / 6,029712 / 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 Andrinas are over 33. That is 9 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 Andrina
France 67,070 Andréa15
Ireland 3,27724
Switzerland 2,190779
England and Wales 2,1456
Scotland 1,93450

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.

Compare something else

Related comparisons

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