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Anderson
Pronounced /ˈæn.dɚ.sən/
Rank in 2024
#356
Born in 2024
943
Peak year
2012 · #280
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 943 boys were named Anderson, about 1 in every 1,819.
- It peaked in 2012 with 1,249 babies, ranked #280.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 33,090 boys have been named Anderson since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Anderson per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.2Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 2,554 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Silent: 1,810 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,861 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,168 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,928 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Z: 9,734 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,134 babies, 0.60 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Ander (“Andrew”) + -son, after Saint Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. In the United States, sometimes an anglicization of Danish and Norwegian Andersen or Swedish Andersson. ==== Proper noun ==== Anderson (countable and uncountable, plural Andersons) (countable) A Scottish surname originating as a patronymic. (countable) A male given name. A placename A river in British Columbia, Canada; flowing from near the Coquihalla Pass into the Fraser River near Boston Bar; named for fur trader James Anderson.
- (countable) A male given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈæn.dɚ.sən/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Anderson, CC BY-SA 4.0.