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Andrew vs Andreya

American parents have registered 1,334,415 Andrews since 1880, against 1,159 Andreyas. Andrew is still ahead, with 4,503 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andrew Andreya

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 2013, when Andrew had 11,698 and Andreya had 41.

Side by side

  Andrew Andreya
Total US births 1,334,4151,159
Most in one year 36,42949
Babies in 2025 4,5037
Estimated living today 1.1 million1,100
Median age today 3422
Peak year 19872008
Best rank 6th boys3,377th girls
Rank in 2025 73rd11,932nd
First recorded 18801968
Girls / boys 4,961 / 1,329,4541,159 / 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 Andrews alive today are over 34; half the Andreyas are over 22. That is 12 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 Andrew Andreya
England and Wales 20,29610

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: Andrew and Andreya.