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Andres vs Andron

American parents have registered 96,733 Andreses since 1880, against 65 Androns. Andres is still ahead, with 1,744 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andres Andron

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 1982, when Andres had 894 and Andron had 17.

Side by side

  Andres Andron
Total US births 96,73365
Most in one year 2,72617
Babies in 2025 1,744under 5
Estimated living today 90,00060
Median age today 2242
Peak year 20071982
Best rank 152nd boys2,709th boys
Rank in 2025 200thunranked
First recorded 18801981
Girls / boys 449 / 96,2840 / 65

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 Androns alive today are over 42; half the Andreses are over 22. That is 20 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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