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 0.003077482 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 0.002053607 615 -100%
1889 561 0.001941539 561 -100%
1890 575 0.001907757 575 -100%
1891 521 0.001817414 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 0.001627973 10 611 -97%
1899 578 0.001703844 578 -100%
1900 718 0.001594631 718 -100%
1901 479 0.001385146 479 -100%
1902 558 0.00144286 558 -100%
1903 550 0.001442805 550 -100%
1904 546 0.00135321 546 -100%
1905 620 0.001462523 620 -100%
1906 611 0.001426067 611 -100%
1907 708 0.001521298 708 -100%
1908 722 0.001477534 722 -100%
1909 766 0.001498365 766 -100%
1910 892 0.001510042 8 884 -98%
1911 1104 0.001713543 6 1098 -99%
1912 1954 0.001977613 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 0.001932881 16 3723 -99%
1917 3764 0.001875665 12 3752 -99%
1918 4156 0.001914228 17 4139 -99%
1919 3872 0.001834853 21 3851 -99%
1920 4048 0.001789053 22 4026 -99%
1921 4032 0.001727134 17 4015 -99%
1922 3825 0.001670924 24 3801 -99%
1923 3774 0.001639092 25 3749 -99%
1924 3769 0.001582536 24 3745 -99%
1925 3632 0.00155658 15 3617 -99%
1926 3370 0.001467837 26 3344 -98%
1927 3472 0.001496968 35 3437 -98%
1928 3177 0.001405192 35 3142 -98%
1929 3106 0.001416862 29 3077 -98%
1930 3081 0.00138579 24 3057 -98%
1931 2743 0.001303492 30 2713 -98%
1932 2667 0.001263225 23 2644 -98%
1933 2360 0.001180349 16 2344 -99%
1934 2466 0.001187423 23 2443 -98%
1935 2308 0.001104402 17 2291 -99%
1936 2289 0.001101792 12 2277 -99%
1937 2419 0.001135348 14 2405 -99%
1938 2418 0.00109285 8 2410 -99%
1939 2451 0.001112369 12 2439 -99%
1940 2443 0.001060975 13 2430 -99%
1941 2722 0.00111725 14 2708 -99%
1942 3161 0.001157144 17 3144 -99%
1943 3364 0.001191849 16 3348 -99%
1944 3072 0.001142005 16 3056 -99%
1945 3021 0.001138776 14 3007 -99%
1946 3773 0.001180816 15 3758 -99%
1947 4358 0.001209809 12 4346 -99%
1948 4319 0.001250985 11 4308 -99%
1949 4535 0.001301398 22 4513 -99%
1950 4950 0.001412912 18 4932 -99%
1951 5390 0.001463177 16 5374 -99%
1952 5584 0.001470234 12 5572 -100%
1953 5646 0.00146512 20 5626 -99%
1954 5666 0.001423364 16 5650 -99%
1955 6038 0.001503835 24 6014 -99%
1956 6623 0.001606321 22 6601 -99%
1957 7024 0.001671389 25 6999 -99%
1958 7138 0.001727172 31 7107 -99%
1959 7114 0.001711445 25 7089 -99%
1960 8224 0.00197964 24 8200 -99%
1961 8506 0.00205413 24 8482 -99%
1962 8730 0.002163543 37 8693 -99%
1963 9552 0.00241298 34 9518 -99%
1964 10537 0.002710362 39 10498 -99%
1965 9713 0.002678986 35 9678 -99%
1966 10285 0.002959175 51 10234 -99%
1967 10015 0.002949918 49 9966 -99%
1968 10623 0.003144242 58 10565 -99%
1969 11329 0.003259538 42 11287 -99%
1970 12045 0.003339499 51 11994 -99%
1971 10970 0.003195938 54 10916 -99%
1972 10163 0.003233207 45 10118 -99%
1973 10781 0.003573274 52 10729 -99%
1974 11837 0.003893486 56 11781 -99%
1975 12826 0.0042474 61 12765 -99%
1976 13362 0.004403167 57 13305 -99%
1977 16096 0.005066888 77 16019 -99%
1978 16812 0.005296468 84 16728 -99%
1979 18752 0.005635779 127 18625 -99%
1980 19824 0.005754696 94 19730 -99%
1981 20354 0.005883359 116 20238 -99%
1982 22997 0.006555251 158 22839 -99%
1983 25761 0.007437981 186 25575 -99%
1984 26073 0.00747348 152 25921 -99%
1985 30380 0.008512155 207 30173 -99%
1986 34071 0.009578709 212 33859 -99%
1987 36429 0.010103901 223 36206 -99%
1988 35960 0.009732706 213 35747 -99%
1989 34961 0.009094236 147 34814 -99%
1990 33775 0.008546077 105 33670 -99%
1991 31635 0.008121977 93 31542 -99%
1992 30639 0.007976904 101 30538 -99%
1993 27394 0.007266346 74 27320 -99%
1994 26077 0.007014932 64 26013 -100%
1995 25910 0.007075587 56 25854 -100%
1996 25285 0.006933251 45 25240 -100%
1997 25257 0.006966433 50 25207 -100%
1998 23714 0.006447559 52 23662 -100%
1999 23902 0.006471164 39 23863 -100%
2000 23699 0.00627021 45 23654 -100%
2001 22465 0.006001719 44 22421 -100%
2002 22062 0.005902412 32 22030 -100%
2003 22199 0.005839138 39 22160 -100%
2004 21813 0.005709673 101 21712 -99%
2005 20770 0.005402991 32 20738 -100%
2006 19752 0.004993784 22 19730 -100%
2007 18484 0.004624876 28 18456 -100%
2008 16799 0.004275177 30 16769 -100%
2009 14893 0.003899893 22 14871 -100%
2010 14278 0.003864739 15 14263 -100%
2011 13302 0.003638095 11 13291 -100%
2012 12653 0.003461158 21 12632 -100%
2013 11692 0.003208868 14 11678 -100%
2014 11191 0.003021177 11 11180 -100%
2015 10145 0.002743087 10 10135 -100%
2016 9434 0.002573475 16 9418 -100%
2017 8291 0.002320616 14 8277 -100%
2018 7311 0.002081868 10 7301 -100%
2019 6809 0.001964614 12 6797 -100%
2020 6061 0.001817947 12 6049 -100%
2021 5605 0.001658425 7 5598 -100%
2022 5131 0.001526222 7 5124 -100%