girls:
1.4k births since 1946
#4370 (24th percentile)
boys:
32.1k births since 1880
#638 (86th percentile)
overall:
33.5k births since 1880
#1377 (82nd percentile)
The name Anderson is the #1,377 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,493 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 82.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #638 (86.1% percentile) for all time with 32,137 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,370 (23.5% percentile) for all time with 1,356 births since 1946.
Anderson has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1946 for girls).
The name Anderson has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 96.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 89.8% of babies named Anderson were boys.
For boys, Anderson reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 70.2% percentile (ranked #269) with 616 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 616 births per million (ranked 70.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Anderson ranks #314 for boys (65.6% percentile) with 549 births per million, which is 89.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Anderson reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 11.5% percentile (ranked #838) with 65 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 65 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Anderson is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #838 (11.5% percentile) with 65 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Anderson".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Anderson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Anderson is pronounced as AN-der-suhn, which has 3 syllables.
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