Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Andy” in the USA?

Number of people named “Andy” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Andy” 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 “Andy” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Andy” by birth year

This chart shows how “Andy” 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 58 0.000287864 58 -100%
1881 58 0.000301005 58 -100%
1882 51 0.000230214 51 -100%
1883 43 0.000198206 43 -100%
1884 55 0.000225909 55 -100%
1885 55 0.000228354 55 -100%
1886 49 0.000191919 49 -100%
1887 54 0.000218277 54 -100%
1888 60 0.000200351 60 -100%
1889 45 0.000155738 45 -100%
1890 53 0.000175845 53 -100%
1891 59 0.000205809 59 -100%
1892 73 0.000218318 73 -100%
1893 51 0.000156815 51 -100%
1894 44 0.000129912 44 -100%
1895 39 0.000111105 39 -100%
1896 45 0.00012588 45 -100%
1897 50 0.00014411 50 -100%
1898 40 0.000104862 40 -100%
1899 41 0.000120861 41 -100%
1900 54 0.000119931 54 -100%
1901 34 0.000098319 34 -100%
1902 42 0.000108602 42 -100%
1903 45 0.000118048 45 -100%
1904 46 0.000114007 46 -100%
1905 38 0.000089639 38 -100%
1906 45 0.00010503 45 -100%
1907 55 0.00011818 55 -100%
1908 56 0.000114602 56 -100%
1909 53 0.000103673 53 -100%
1910 76 0.000128659 76 -100%
1911 63 0.000097784 63 -100%
1912 113 0.000114365 113 -100%
1913 150 0.000131913 150 -100%
1914 225 0.00015886 225 -100%
1915 277 0.000151166 277 -100%
1916 291 0.000150433 291 -100%
1917 303 0.00015099 5 298 -97%
1918 367 0.000169038 6 361 -97%
1919 290 0.000137425 5 285 -97%
1920 319 0.000140986 5 314 -97%
1921 315 0.000134932 315 -100%
1922 303 0.000132363 303 -100%
1923 297 0.000128991 6 291 -96%
1924 272 0.000114208 6 266 -96%
1925 259 0.000111001 5 254 -96%
1926 245 0.000106712 245 -100%
1927 305 0.000131502 305 -100%
1928 258 0.000114112 258 -100%
1929 255 0.000116324 255 -100%
1930 262 0.000117843 5 257 -96%
1931 250 0.000118799 7 243 -94%
1932 217 0.000102781 217 -100%
1933 232 0.000116032 232 -100%
1934 217 0.000104487 6 211 -94%
1935 226 0.000108139 8 218 -93%
1936 224 0.000107818 224 -100%
1937 232 0.000108886 232 -100%
1938 243 0.000109827 243 -100%
1939 260 0.000117997 8 252 -94%
1940 263 0.000114214 6 257 -95%
1941 278 0.000114102 278 -100%
1942 329 0.000120433 6 323 -96%
1943 344 0.000121875 344 -100%
1944 336 0.000124903 7 329 -96%
1945 354 0.000133438 8 346 -95%
1946 438 0.000137076 9 429 -96%
1947 467 0.000129639 10 457 -96%
1948 494 0.000143084 7 487 -97%
1949 463 0.000132864 7 456 -97%
1950 412 0.000117601 10 402 -95%
1951 435 0.000118087 8 427 -96%
1952 429 0.000112954 5 424 -98%
1953 471 0.000122222 471 -100%
1954 507 0.000127364 7 500 -97%
1955 583 0.000145203 8 575 -97%
1956 678 0.000164442 5 673 -99%
1957 991 0.000235832 11 980 -98%
1958 1154 0.000279155 18 1136 -97%
1959 1333 0.000320587 24 1309 -96%
1960 1452 0.000349558 24 1428 -97%
1961 1391 0.000335804 17 1374 -98%
1962 1431 0.000354614 11 1420 -98%
1963 1495 0.000377697 14 1481 -98%
1964 1485 0.000381983 15 1470 -98%
1965 1186 0.000327132 11 1175 -98%
1966 1006 0.000289442 9 997 -98%
1967 950 0.000279832 9 941 -98%
1968 917 0.000271429 10 907 -98%
1969 957 0.00027537 13 944 -97%
1970 964 0.000267294 11 953 -98%
1971 855 0.0002491 9 846 -98%
1972 783 0.000249126 11 772 -97%
1973 784 0.000259871 9 775 -98%
1974 897 0.000295066 897 -100%
1975 940 0.000311321 13 927 -97%
1976 923 0.000304189 8 915 -98%
1977 984 0.000309775 11 973 -98%
1978 982 0.000309401 11 971 -98%
1979 1024 0.000307785 12 1012 -98%
1980 981 0.000284801 13 968 -97%
1981 978 0.00028271 9 969 -98%
1982 938 0.000267392 11 927 -98%
1983 848 0.00024485 13 835 -97%
1984 753 0.000215836 13 740 -97%
1985 768 0.00021518 8 760 -98%
1986 727 0.000204381 9 718 -98%
1987 820 0.000227423 11 809 -97%
1988 851 0.000230309 14 837 -97%
1989 911 0.000236965 11 900 -98%
1990 970 0.000245416 13 957 -97%
1991 1052 0.000270071 11 1041 -98%
1992 1180 0.00030719 15 1165 -97%
1993 1162 0.0003082 12 1150 -98%
1994 1149 0.000309066 12 1137 -98%
1995 1124 0.000306923 17 1107 -97%
1996 1301 0.000356712 9 1292 -99%
1997 1440 0.000397159 15 1425 -98%
1998 1460 0.000396933 13 1447 -98%
1999 1582 0.000428277 10 1572 -99%
2000 1722 0.000455567 12 1710 -99%
2001 1809 0.000483252 13 1796 -99%
2002 1752 0.000468663 22 1730 -97%
2003 1653 0.000434735 16 1637 -98%
2004 1802 0.000471614 7 1795 -99%
2005 1946 0.000506132 15 1931 -98%
2006 1925 0.000486579 22 1903 -98%
2007 1853 0.000463518 22 1831 -98%
2008 1840 0.000468114 25 1815 -97%
2009 1683 0.000440556 20 1663 -98%
2010 1496 0.00040479 15 1481 -98%
2011 1291 0.000352945 18 1273 -97%
2012 1287 0.000351892 14 1273 -98%
2013 1209 0.000331627 16 1193 -97%
2014 1285 0.0003467 16 1269 -98%
2015 1103 0.000298035 35 1068 -94%
2016 1086 0.000296018 26 1060 -95%
2017 913 0.000255299 32 881 -93%
2018 917 0.000260815 35 882 -92%
2019 880 0.000253534 42 838 -90%
2020 780 0.000233493 24 756 -94%
2021 665 0.000196284 28 637 -92%
2022 726 0.000214594 38 688 -90%
2023 640 0.000193284 36 604 -89%
2024 660 0.000198287 32 628 -90%

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