Name Trends

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How popular is “Andrew” in the USA?

Number of people named “Andrew” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Andrew” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Andrew” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Andrew” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Andrew” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Andrew” by birth year

This chart shows how “Andrew” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 644 0.003196283 644 -100%
1881 593 0.003077514 5 588 -98%
1882 673 0.003037922 673 -100%
1883 623 0.002871696 623 -100%
1884 616 0.002530179 616 -100%
1885 599 0.002486984 599 -100%
1886 619 0.002424437 5 614 -98%
1887 520 0.002101919 520 -100%
1888 615 0.002053601 615 -100%
1889 561 0.001941539 561 -100%
1890 575 0.001907757 575 -100%
1891 521 0.001817408 521 -100%
1892 637 0.001905052 637 -100%
1893 520 0.001598903 520 -100%
1894 594 0.001753816 594 -100%
1895 562 0.001601044 562 -100%
1896 566 0.001583288 566 -100%
1897 555 0.001599622 555 -100%
1898 621 0.001627977 10 611 -97%
1899 578 0.001703839 578 -100%
1900 718 0.001594638 718 -100%
1901 479 0.001385146 479 -100%
1902 558 0.001442856 558 -100%
1903 550 0.001442805 550 -100%
1904 546 0.00135321 546 -100%
1905 620 0.001462526 620 -100%
1906 611 0.001426067 611 -100%
1907 708 0.001521301 708 -100%
1908 722 0.00147754 722 -100%
1909 766 0.001498365 766 -100%
1910 892 0.001510045 8 884 -98%
1911 1104 0.001713546 6 1098 -99%
1912 1954 0.001977611 8 1946 -99%
1913 2230 0.00196111 8 2222 -99%
1914 2977 0.002101887 12 2965 -99%
1915 3594 0.00196133 21 3573 -99%
1916 3739 0.001932884 16 3723 -99%
1917 3764 0.00187567 12 3752 -99%
1918 4155 0.001913766 17 4138 -99%
1919 3872 0.001834856 21 3851 -99%
1920 4048 0.001789058 22 4026 -99%
1921 4032 0.001727134 17 4015 -99%
1922 3826 0.001671359 24 3802 -99%
1923 3774 0.001639099 25 3749 -99%
1924 3768 0.001582121 24 3744 -99%
1925 3632 0.00155659 15 3617 -99%
1926 3370 0.001467836 26 3344 -98%
1927 3472 0.001496964 35 3437 -98%
1928 3177 0.001405178 35 3142 -98%
1929 3105 0.001416416 29 3076 -98%
1930 3082 0.001386235 24 3058 -98%
1931 2743 0.00130348 30 2713 -98%
1932 2667 0.001263216 23 2644 -98%
1933 2360 0.001180335 16 2344 -99%
1934 2466 0.001187403 23 2443 -98%
1935 2308 0.001104374 17 2291 -99%
1936 2288 0.001101291 12 2276 -99%
1937 2419 0.001135344 14 2405 -99%
1938 2419 0.001093298 8 2411 -99%
1939 2452 0.001112813 12 2440 -99%
1940 2443 0.001060958 13 2430 -99%
1941 2722 0.001117232 14 2708 -99%
1942 3160 0.001156764 17 3143 -99%
1943 3365 0.001192182 16 3349 -99%
1944 3072 0.001141984 16 3056 -99%
1945 3021 0.001138767 14 3007 -99%
1946 3773 0.001180806 15 3758 -99%
1947 4358 0.001209796 12 4346 -99%
1948 4318 0.001250686 11 4307 -99%
1949 4535 0.001301389 22 4513 -99%
1950 4950 0.001412926 18 4932 -99%
1951 5389 0.001462923 16 5373 -99%
1952 5584 0.001470245 12 5572 -100%
1953 5645 0.001464859 20 5625 -99%
1954 5667 0.001423625 16 5651 -99%
1955 6037 0.001503599 24 6013 -99%
1956 6624 0.001606582 22 6602 -99%
1957 7023 0.001671322 25 6998 -99%
1958 7145 0.001728246 30 7115 -99%
1959 7112 0.001710964 26 7086 -99%
1960 8223 0.001979575 24 8199 -99%
1961 8508 0.002054103 24 8484 -99%
1962 8730 0.002163665 37 8693 -99%
1963 9550 0.002412632 34 9516 -99%
1964 10533 0.002709409 39 10494 -99%
1965 9709 0.002677989 35 9674 -99%
1966 10284 0.002958938 51 10233 -99%
1967 10016 0.002950323 49 9967 -99%
1968 10620 0.003143534 58 10562 -99%
1969 11328 0.003259529 42 11286 -99%
1970 12040 0.003338415 51 11989 -99%
1971 10969 0.003195831 54 10915 -99%
1972 10159 0.003232244 45 10114 -99%
1973 10780 0.003573261 52 10728 -99%
1974 11834 0.003892763 56 11778 -99%
1975 12823 0.004246908 61 12762 -99%
1976 13359 0.004402645 57 13302 -99%
1977 16094 0.005066723 77 16017 -99%
1978 16807 0.005295511 84 16723 -99%
1979 18743 0.00563367 127 18616 -99%
1980 19827 0.00575615 94 19733 -99%
1981 20349 0.005882346 116 20233 -99%
1982 22994 0.006554842 158 22836 -99%
1983 25762 0.007438621 186 25576 -99%
1984 26070 0.007472792 152 25918 -99%
1985 30384 0.008513369 207 30177 -99%
1986 34071 0.009578723 212 33859 -99%
1987 36427 0.010103203 223 36204 -99%
1988 35959 0.009732165 213 35746 -99%
1989 34962 0.009094428 147 34815 -99%
1990 33780 0.008547037 105 33675 -99%
1991 31632 0.008120998 93 31539 -99%
1992 30639 0.007976662 101 30538 -99%
1993 27394 0.007266053 74 27320 -99%
1994 26076 0.007014427 64 26012 -100%
1995 25908 0.007074784 56 25852 -100%
1996 25287 0.006933561 45 25242 -100%
1997 25257 0.006966234 50 25207 -100%
1998 23714 0.006447372 52 23662 -100%
1999 23903 0.006471205 39 23864 -100%
2000 23699 0.006269923 45 23654 -100%
2001 22465 0.006001444 44 22421 -100%
2002 22066 0.005902947 32 22034 -100%
2003 22201 0.005839271 39 22162 -100%
2004 21815 0.005709787 101 21714 -99%
2005 20772 0.005402977 32 20740 -100%
2006 19753 0.004993434 22 19731 -100%
2007 18486 0.004624671 28 18458 -100%
2008 16805 0.004275975 30 16775 -100%
2009 14894 0.00389947 22 14872 -100%
2010 14279 0.003864259 15 14264 -100%
2011 13305 0.003638076 11 13294 -100%
2012 12660 0.003462188 21 12639 -100%
2013 11695 0.003208679 14 11681 -100%
2014 11197 0.003021793 11 11186 -100%
2015 10152 0.002743896 10 10142 -100%
2016 9441 0.002574218 16 9425 -100%
2017 8295 0.002320463 14 8281 -100%
2018 7313 0.002081015 10 7303 -100%
2019 6816 0.00196495 12 6804 -100%
2020 6069 0.001818239 12 6057 -100%
2021 5617 0.001659533 7 5610 -100%
2022 5158 0.001526663 7 5151 -100%
2023 4787 0.001451818 6 4781 -100%