Anders

What Anders means

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

Editor’s note Down from #796 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 in the US Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Anders?

US: Falling: down from #796 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1673 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 298 boys got the name (#832 that year). First in the US records in 1912.

How common

• About 1 in 7,362 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 38,848 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 6,547 baby boys in Scotland 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 MN (0.98 per 1,000 boys), UT (0.81 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.58 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Anders is #984 in the US and #2952 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 Anders were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Andres1,744 US · 9 E&W
• Andreus11 US
• Andrews5 US
• Andros5 US
• Andris5 US
• Andrus5 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 Anders

Boys

• Soren#464Editor’s note Up from #574 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 in the US
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Harold#991“army + ruler, authority”^*
• Erik#545Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1980, with 4,918 babies; 549 in 2025
• Grayson#51“steward”^*
• Greyson#149Variant of Grayson, meaning “steward”^*

For a sister

• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Maren#470Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #470 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Annika#995Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,089 babies; 254 in 2025
• Quinn#97“descendant of Chief”^*
• Aria#26“a musical aria”^*

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