Andersen
Masculine · “son of Andrew”
Andersen is given to both — 948 boys and 336 girls since 1880. See other names given to both
Andersen is Danish for son of Anders, and Anders is Andrew — a Greek name built on the word for a man.
How old is the name Andersen?
Andersen first appears in US birth records in 1988 — 37 years ago. The typical Andersen alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Andersen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andersen most popular?
Andersen peaked in 2015, reaching #2486 nationally. Today it ranks #3949, 1,463 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andersen
The story of Andersen
Scandinavian patronymics were live until the nineteenth century — a man was genuinely the son of his father and his name changed each generation — and were frozen into hereditary surnames by law. Andersen is among the commonest Danish surnames. Hans Christian Andersen is the best-known bearer by a wide margin. Its use as an American given name is recent and belongs with the surname fashion.
Meaning
son of Andrew
From Greek andreios, manly, on aner, a man; Andreas gave Danish and Swedish Anders, and the patronymic -sen records the father's name. The -sen spelling is Danish and Norwegian; Swedish uses -sson.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Anders
- Andersen
Related forms: Andersen · Andersson · Anderson
Pronouncing Andersen
AN-der-sen
Three syllables, first stressed. Danish gives the same shape.
Nicknames for Andersen
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1988
- Most boys named
- 201550 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2486reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +17.4%27 in 2025, from 23
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Andersen in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andersen in Danish — same name
- Andersson in Swedish — related form
- Anderson in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Florida, Illinois.
Andersens among us
people named Andersen are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 63,262 born in 2025 was named Andersen
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Severino test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andersen's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Severino climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Severino's path sketches the road Andersen is walking now.
Andersen sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Andersen is headed
Andersen is easing off slowly — about 22% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Andersen beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andersen in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning traceable to a genuinely old Greek word.
- Anders and Andy are both complete short forms in their own right.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Anderson with an o is far more common in American records.
- It reads as a surname to people meeting it in front of another one.
- The storyteller is the first association for a great many people.
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Masculine · #3949 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Andersens are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Andersen are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andersen in 2025?
- Andersen ranks #3949 among US boy names in 2025, with 27 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andersen?
- About 1 in every 63,262 US boys born in 2025 was named Andersen — 27 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andersen with classmates?
- Andersen will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Andersen
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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