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Boy's name · #363 in the US (2025) · Comeback
89% boys · 11% girls — Anderson is also given to girls: 181 in 2025, about 11% in recent years. Anderson →
Anderson was #215 in 1882, slipped to #1078 by 1981, and has climbed back to #363 today. About 34,000 boys have carried it since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 39 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#139 in Ecuador (2025) · #688 in Mexico (2024) · #1,766 in France (2025) · #1,971 in Switzerland (2025) · #2,457 in England & Wales (2025) · #607 in Canada (2024).
It is also an American family name — about 784,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 369 notable people named Anderson:
Sports figures appear 2.59× more often than among typical names — e.g. Anderson, Brazilian association football player (born 1988).
Similar names: Cyrus · Andy · Abner · Jefferson · Emerson · Solomon
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