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Andray vs Andres

American parents have registered 96,733 Andreses since 1880, against 241 Andrays. Andres is still ahead, with 1,744 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andray Andres

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

Andres 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 1965, when Andray had 8 and Andres had 250.

Side by side

  Andray Andres
Total US births 24196,733
Most in one year 102,726
Babies in 2025 under 51,744
Estimated living today 23090,000
Median age today 3622
Peak year 19762007
Best rank 3,471st boys152nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked200th
First recorded 19651880
Girls / boys 0 / 241449 / 96,284

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 Andrays alive today are over 36; half the Andreses are over 22. That is 14 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: Andray and Andres.