Andy
Andy is ranked 488th among boys in 2024 (628 births). Its best rank was 193rd, in 1881, 1964.
- Rank in 2024
- #488up 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6280.04% of boys
- Peak year
- 20051,931 births
- Best rank
- #193first in 1881
- Since 1880
- 94,920people given the name
The story in the numbers
93,644 boys have been named Andy in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2005, with 1,931 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 285 → 488).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 2000s alone account for 19%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,276 girls have also been given it, 1.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Andy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 528 | |
| 1890s | 495 | |
| 1900s | 468 | |
| 1910s | 2,139 | |
| 1920s | 2,806 | |
| 1930s | 2,329 | |
| 1940s | 3,706 | |
| 1950s | 6,897 | |
| 1960s | 12,137 | |
| 1970s | 9,041 | |
| 1980s | 8,463 | |
| 1990s | 12,293 | |
| 2000s | 17,811 | |
| 2010s | 11,218 | |
| 2020s | 3,313 |
In 2005, its biggest year
Andy was the 201st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2005 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2005.
Names that rose and fell with Andy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Blainepeak 2001
- Tomaspeak 2003
- Pedropeak 2000
- Rubenpeak 1992
- Claypeak 1960
- Larspeak 2000
- Orlandopeak 1987
- Felipepeak 2001
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.