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Andamo vs Andrea

American parents have registered 451,448 Andreas since 1880, against 15 Andamos. Andrea is still ahead, with 1,333 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andamo against Andrea, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andamo Andrea

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

Andrea has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1881 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1960, when Andamo had 15 and Andrea had 4,294.

Side by side

  Andamo Andrea
Total US births 15451,448
Most in one year 1511,840
Babies in 2025 under 51,333
Estimated living today 11418,000
Median age today 6542
Peak year 19601981
Best rank 2,121st boys24th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked235th
First recorded 19601881
Girls / boys 0 / 15445,419 / 6,029

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 Andamos alive today are over 65; half the Andreas are over 42. That is 23 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: Andamo and Andrea.