girls:
4.9k births since 1881
#2409 (58th percentile)
boys:
1.3M births since 1880
#19 (100th percentile)
overall:
1.3M births since 1880
#25 (100th percentile)
The name Andrew is the #25 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,324,946 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 99.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 99.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #19 (99.6% percentile) for all time with 1,320,002 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,409 (57.9% percentile) for all time with 4,944 births since 1881.
Andrew has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1881 for girls).
The name Andrew has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Andrew reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 99.5% percentile (ranked #5) with 10,547 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 18,564 births per million (ranked 99.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1989, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Andrew ranks #63 for boys (93.2% percentile) with 2,611 births per million, which is 14.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Andrew reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 26.7% percentile (ranked #588) with 119 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 119 births per million (ranked 26.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Andrew ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Andrew".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Andrew. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Andrew is pronounced as AN-drue, which has 2 syllables.
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