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Andri vs Andy

American parents have registered 95,492 Andys since 1880, against 158 Andris. Andy is still ahead, with 555 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andri against Andy, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andri Andy

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

Andy 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 2025, when Andri had 7 and Andy had 555.

Side by side

  Andri Andy
Total US births 15895,492
Most in one year 101,951
Babies in 2025 7555
Estimated living today 15078,000
Median age today 1830
Peak year 20072005
Best rank 7,590th boys201st boys
Rank in 2025 9,714th565th
First recorded 19561880
Girls / boys 5 / 1531,307 / 94,185

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 Andys alive today are over 30; half the Andris are over 18. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Both names abroad

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

Country Andri Andy
France 512,675
Switzerland 1,134234
England and Wales 51,061

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: Andri and Andy.