Andy
Andy reached its high-water mark in 2005 at number 201, and has been recorded 95,492 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 565th. About 78,000 Andys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Andy boys named Andy
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 95,492
- Estimated living today
- 78,000
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 2005
- Best rank
- 201st
- Rank in 2025
- 565th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,307 / 94,185
How old the living Andys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 95,492 babies given the name since 1880, about 78,000 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 19,000 of them are children and 8,100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Ancient Greek
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Andys
- Andy Warhol (1928–1987)American artist, film director, and producer
- Andy Murray (born 1987)British tennis player
- Andy Burnham (born 1970)Leader of the Labour Party in the United Kingdom and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2026
- Andy Serkis (born 1964)British actor
- Andy Roddick (born 1982)American tennis player
- Andy Garcia (born 1956)American actor and director
- Andy Dick (born 1965)American comedian and actor
- Andy Robertson (born 1994)Scottish association football player
People named Andy with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Andy is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Andy is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.2×), California (2.1×), Nevada (1.6×), Arizona (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2005
The most popular boys’ names the year Andy peaked:
Andy elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Andy | 12,500 | 145th |
| England and Wales boys | Andy | 1,061 | 536th |
| Belgium boys | Andy | 996 | 100th |
| Italy boys | Andy | 396 | — |
| Ireland boys | Andy | 322 | 257th |
| Switzerland boys | Andy | 234 | 257th |
| France girls | Andy | 175 | 2,491st |
| Scotland boys | Andy | 91 | 406th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Andy | 14 | 263rd |
| Poland boys | Andy | 6 birth registrations | 455th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Andy: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Andy | 137 | 0.011% | 219th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Andy | 90 | 0.021% | 213th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Andy | 6 | 0.009% | 116th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Andy | 1 | 0.027% | 22nd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Andy is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 27 of them.
Andy: rank by region
In 2022, Andy was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Andy | 398 | 7 |
In 2022, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Andy appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (241st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Andy by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 23 | 259th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Andy among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Andy | 2,215 | 2,704 |
| Finland boys | Andy | 81 | 115 |
| the Netherlands girls | Andy | 18 | 44 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Andy lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,122 men called Andy were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palmas, Las | Andy | 61 | 0.105 | 883 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Andy | 50 | 0.094 | 948 |
| Tarragona | Andy | 36 | 0.082 | 886 |
| León | Andy | 17 | 0.078 | 738 |
| Balears, Illes | Andy | 48 | 0.077 | 859 |
| Lugo | Andy | 12 | 0.076 | 733 |
Listed in 41 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 11 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Andy against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.