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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Anderson

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#363

down −7 places

2025 births

898

down −48 births

All-time births

33,991

3% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
2012
1,249 births
Best rank
#215
in 1882
First recorded
1880
#252 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1993
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 20121,249#280Peak
  2. 20171,201#294
  3. 20151,186#306
  4. 20181,173#297
  5. 20141,163#304

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #215 in 1882 · peak births 1,249 in 2012

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 95% boys■ 5% girls

33,991 boys · 1,655 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Anderson has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.