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Andrei vs Andres

American parents have registered 96,733 Andreses since 1880, against 3,095 Andreis. Andres is still ahead, with 1,744 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andrei 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

Andres 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 1954, when Andrei had 13 and Andres had 140.

Side by side

  Andrei Andres
Total US births 3,09596,733
Most in one year 1192,726
Babies in 2025 531,744
Estimated living today 3,00090,000
Median age today 1822
Peak year 20062007
Best rank 1,360th boys152nd boys
Rank in 2025 2,516th200th
First recorded 19481880
Girls / boys 0 / 3,095449 / 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 Andreses alive today are over 22; half the Andreis are over 18. That is 4 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 Andrei Andres
France 9251,190
Italy 1,598464
England and Wales 1,742309
Belgium 306852
Norway 291286
Ireland 22115
Switzerland 8095 Andrés
Poland 5511
Scotland 294

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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Related comparisons

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