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Andi vs Andre

American parents have registered 132,861 Andres since 1880, against 8,145 Andis. Andre is still ahead, with 868 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Andi against Andre, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Andi Andre

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

Andre 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 Andi had 469 and Andre had 868.

Side by side

  Andi Andre
Total US births 8,145132,861
Most in one year 4692,573
Babies in 2025 469868
Estimated living today 8,000120,000
Median age today 1036
Peak year 20251970
Best rank 632nd girls134th boys
Rank in 2025 632nd368th
First recorded 19441880
Girls / boys 7,266 / 8792,205 / 130,656

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 Andres alive today are over 36; half the Andis are over 10. That is 26 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 Andi Andre
France 200713,190 André
England and Wales 3722,654
Switzerland 321992 André
Italy 365410
Belgium 27364 André
Ireland 13180
Scotland 13930
Northern Ireland 314

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: Andi and Andre.