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Andreana vs Andrew

American parents have registered 1,334,415 Andrews since 1880, against 1,809 Andreanas. Andrew is still ahead, with 4,503 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andreana against Andrew, 1880 to 2025 0 10k 20k 30k 40k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andreana Andrew

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

Andrew 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 1975, when Andreana had 54 and Andrew had 12,816.

Side by side

  Andreana Andrew
Total US births 1,8091,334,415
Most in one year 7236,429
Babies in 2025 under 54,503
Estimated living today 1,8001.1 million
Median age today 3334
Peak year 19901987
Best rank 1,923rd girls6th boys
Rank in 2025 unranked73rd
First recorded 19521880
Girls / boys 1,809 / 04,961 / 1,329,454

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.

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 Andreana Andrew
England and Wales 320,296
France 254,160

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: Andreana and Andrew.