Andre

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Andre boys named Andre

By the numbers

Total US births

132,861

Estimated living today

120,000

Median age today

36

Peak year

1970

Best rank

134th

Rank in 2025

368th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

2,205 / 130,656

How old the living Andres are

born that year still alive today

Of the 132,861 babies given the name since 1880, about 120,000 are alive — 90 in every hundred. Roughly 23,000 of them are children and 7,500 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1989 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 French

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Andres

• André Gide (1869–1951)French author and Nobel laureate
• Andre Agassi (born 1970)American tennis player
• André Malraux (1901–1976)French novelist, art theorist, and statesman
• André Breton (1896–1966)French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism
• André Maurois (1885–1967)French author
• Andre Geim (born 1958)Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
• André Schürrle (born 1990)German association football player
• André Chénier (1762–1794)French poet

People named Andre with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Andre is most common

• CA17,003
• NY12,858
• IL8,723
• TX8,710
• FL6,913
• MI5,989
• PA5,620
• OH5,137
• NJ4,645
• MD4,024

Relative to how many babies each state records, Andre is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (5.2×), Maryland (2.1×), Delaware (1.7×), Louisiana (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1970

The most popular boys’ names the year Andre peaked:

• Michael
• James
• David
• John
• Robert
• Christopher

All the names of 1970

Andre elsewhere

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.

Andre: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Andre is most concentrated in Geneva, where 0.11% of children were given it – 109 of them.

Andre: rank by region

In 2025, Andre was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

In 2024, Andre was among the 10 most common names in 2 regions of Italy.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Andre appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (162nd) and Province of Antwerp (341st).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Italy 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.

Andre by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Andre 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.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, 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 Andre lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 2,691 men called Andre 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

Listed in 39 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 13 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

• Andrew
• Andrea
• Andres
• Andy
• Anderson
• Andria
• Andreas
• Andra
• Andi
• Anders
• Andie
• Ander

Andre against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Andre vs Andrew
• Andre vs Andrea
• Andre vs Andres
• Andre vs Andy
• Andre vs Anderson
• Andre vs Andria

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