Andrea
Andrea is ranked 185th among girls in 2024 (1,624 births). Its best rank was 23rd, in 1978.
- Rank in 2024
- #185down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,6240.10% of girls
- Peak year
- 198111,685 births
- Best rank
- #23in 1978
- Since 1881
- 450,102people given the name
The story in the numbers
444,089 girls have been named Andrea in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 11,685 births — 0.70% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 125 → 185).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 136 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 51 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 6,013 boys have also been given it, 1.3% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Andrea | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 | |
| 1890s | 131 | |
| 1900s | 185 | |
| 1910s | 573 | |
| 1920s | 1,149 | |
| 1930s | 2,184 | |
| 1940s | 17,061 | |
| 1950s | 29,380 | |
| 1960s | 58,408 | |
| 1970s | 86,424 | |
| 1980s | 98,264 | |
| 1990s | 65,243 | |
| 2000s | 49,182 | |
| 2010s | 27,184 | |
| 2020s | 8,670 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Andrea was the 24th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Andrea
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rosalbapeak 1979
- Nerissapeak 1979
- Daynapeak 1988
- Andriapeak 1980
- Alisonpeak 1980
- Aprylpeak 1981
- Aleciapeak 1987
- Britapeak 1981
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.