Andrew
Andrew is ranked 68th among boys in 2024 (4,772 births). Its best rank was 5th, in 1988, 1991–1992, 2003.
- Rank in 2024
- #68down 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 4,7720.28% of boys
- Peak year
- 198736,205 births
- Best rank
- #5first in 1988
- Since 1880
- 1,329,846people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,324,893 boys have been named Andrew in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1987, with 36,205 births — 1.9% of all boys recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 22 → 68).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 22%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 145 of them in the top 100 and 21 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 4,953 girls have also been given it, 0.37% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Andrew | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 6,053 | |
| 1890s | 5,719 | |
| 1900s | 6,277 | |
| 1910s | 28,152 | |
| 1920s | 35,952 | |
| 1930s | 25,025 | |
| 1940s | 34,618 | |
| 1950s | 60,970 | |
| 1960s | 97,112 | |
| 1970s | 132,943 | |
| 1980s | 285,094 | |
| 1990s | 272,929 | |
| 2000s | 202,577 | |
| 2010s | 105,056 | |
| 2020s | 26,416 |
In 1987, its biggest year
Andrew was the 6th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1987 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1987.
Names that rose and fell with Andrew
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mathewpeak 1990
- Bryantpeak 1989
- Jarvispeak 1989
- Schuylerpeak 1993
- Bricepeak 1989
- Antoniopeak 1997
- Josepeak 2002
- Pedropeak 2000
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.