Ander
Ander reached its high-water mark in 2023 at number 566, and has been recorded 4,549 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 728th. About 4,300 Anders are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Ander
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,549
- Estimated living today
- 4,300
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2023
- Best rank
- 566th
- Rank in 2025
- 728th
- First recorded
- 1908
How old the living Anders are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,549 babies given the name since 1908, about 4,300 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 3,900 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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.
Notable Anders
- Ander Herrera (born 1989)Spanish association football player
- Ander Iturraspe (born 1989)Spanish footballer
- Ander Barrenetxea Muguruza (born 2001)Spanish association football player
- Ander Capa (born 1992)Spanish footballer
- Ander Guevara (born 1997)Spanish association football player
- Ander Murillo (born 1983)Spanish footballer
- Ander Astralaga (born 2004)Spanish association football player
- Ander Garitano (born 1969)Spanish football player/manager
People named Ander with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Ander is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Ander is most concentrated in Arizona (3.4×), Texas (3.3×), Florida (2.9×), Utah (2.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2023
The most popular boys’ names the year Ander peaked:
Ander elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Ander | 5,020 | 87th |
| France boys | Ander | 150 | 2,212th |
| England and Wales boys | Ander | 46 | 2,493rd |
| Scotland boys | Ander | 3 | 704th |
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.
Ander: rank by region
In 2022, Ander was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| País Vasco | Ander | 10 | 90 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Spain after 10 names – 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.
Ander 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Ander | 5 | 10 |
A count of people on a register – 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 Ander lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 16,979 men called Ander 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gipuzkoa | Ander | 4,088 | 11.407 | 11 |
| Bizkaia | Ander | 5,732 | 10.146 | 12 |
| Araba/Álava | Ander | 1,339 | 7.951 | 22 |
| Navarra | Ander | 1,524 | 4.498 | 53 |
| Rioja, La | Ander | 166 | 1.030 | 138 |
| Burgos | Ander | 139 | 0.766 | 170 |
Listed in 49 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 3 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
Ander 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.