Anders

At the 2020 census, 14,889 Americans bore the surname Anders — 2,393rd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 20,100.

By the numbers

People: 14,889
Rank: 2,393rd
How common: 1 in 20,100
Per 100,000: 5.0

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Anders described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 84.0%
Black, not Hispanic 7.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Anders

Bill Anders (1933–2024)American astronaut and lunar explorer
Thomas Anders (born 1963)German singer, songwriter, and producer
Władysław Anders (1892–1970)Polish general, politician and national hero
Günther Anders (1902–1992)German-Austrian philosopher
David Anders (born 1981)actor
Andrea Anders (born 1975)actress from the United States
Sean Anders (born 1969)American film director, screenwriter, actor
Charlie Jane Anders (born 1969)American author and commentator

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

Surnames like Anders

Also a first name

Anders has been given to 8,031 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2014. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.