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Andres vs Andruw

American parents have registered 96,733 Andreses since 1880, against 518 Andruws. Andres is still ahead, with 1,744 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Andres Andruw

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 2003, when Andres had 2,333 and Andruw had 45.

Side by side

  Andres Andruw
Total US births 96,733518
Most in one year 2,72645
Babies in 2025 1,744under 5
Estimated living today 90,000510
Median age today 2222
Peak year 20072003
Best rank 152nd boys2,349th boys
Rank in 2025 200thunranked
First recorded 18801996
Girls / boys 449 / 96,2840 / 518

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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Andres and Andruw.