Anders
The boy's name Anders has been in the national records since 1912, with 8,031 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 984th. About 7,600 Anderses are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 14.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,031
- Estimated living today
- 7,600
- Median age today
- 14
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 749th
- Rank in 2025
- 984th
- First recorded
- 1912
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 8,026
How old the living Anderses are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,031 babies given the name since 1912, about 7,600 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 4,500 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2011 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Anderss
- Anders Celsius (1701–1744)Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist
- Anders Behring Breivik (born 1979)Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist and mass murderer
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen (born 1953)former Prime Minister of Denmark and former Secretary General of NATO
- Anders Jonas Ångström (1814–1874)Swedish physicist
- Anders Zorn (1860–1920)Swedish painter and engraver
- Anders Lindegaard (born 1984)Danish footballer
- Anders Svensson (born 1976)Swedish footballer
- Anders Arborelius (born 1949)Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm, Sweden
People named Anders with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Anders is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Anders is most concentrated in Minnesota (10.0×), Utah (6.4×), Washington (5.0×), Colorado (3.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Anders peaked:
Anders elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Anders | 19,426 | 3rd |
| Denmark boys | Anders | 13,748 | 9th |
| England and Wales boys | Anders | 189 | 1,673rd |
| Sweden boys | Anders | 67 | 96th |
| France boys | Anders | 60 | 4,167th |
| Scotland boys | Anders | 17 | 516th |
| Belgium boys | Anders | 15 | 1,257th |
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.
Anders: rank by region
In 2008, Anders was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Anders | 844 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – 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.
Anders 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 | Anders | 1,714 | 6,582 |
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.
Related names
Anders 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.