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Andrew vs Andrian

American parents have registered 1,334,415 Andrews since 1880, against 695 Andrians. Andrew is still ahead, with 4,503 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andrew Andrian

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 2019, when Andrew had 6,827 and Andrian had 13.

Side by side

  Andrew Andrian
Total US births 1,334,415695
Most in one year 36,42930
Babies in 2025 4,503under 5
Estimated living today 1.1 million670
Median age today 3433
Peak year 19871978
Best rank 6th boys2,205th boys
Rank in 2025 73rdunranked
First recorded 18801962
Girls / boys 4,961 / 1,329,45496 / 599

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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Andrew Andrian
England and Wales 20,2963
France 4,16010
Switzerland 18312
Poland 13411

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 Andrian.