Ander

What Ander means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Ander yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #728 vs #5,137 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ander?

US: Rising: up from #1334 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 516 boys got the name (#566 that year). First in the US records in 1908.

How common

• About 1 in 4,680 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AZ (0.64 per 1,000 boys), NE (0.57 per 1,000 boys), NV (0.53 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Ander is #728 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Ander were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Andrew4,497 US · 127 E&W
• Andrei53 US · 61 E&W
• Ender93 US
• Andrey34 US · 6 E&W
• Andry30 US
• Andree23 US
• Andru8 US
• Andri7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Ander

Boys

• Kayson#264Variant of Cason, meaning “house”^*
• Hayes#162“brushwood”^*
• Amir#105“commander, prince”^*
• Bennett#40Form of Benedict, meaning “blessed, well spoken of”^*
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*

For a sister

• Lennon#214“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Kaylani#185Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,054 in 2015, #185 in 2025
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Juniper#100Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #427 in 2015, #100 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Ander’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.