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Andersson

Boy · AN-der-son · English

Andersson is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “son of Andrew”. In 2025 it ranked 7,190th for boys in the US (11 babies).

What does Andersson mean?

English: spelling of Anderson; Scottish and English surname

“son of Andrew”

A surname meaning son of Andrew, especially common in Scotland, where Saint Andrew is patron saint.

Say it
AN-der-son

Meaning borrowed from Anderson. More on Wiktionary.

Is Andersson a girl's or a boy's name?

Andersson is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Andersson in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,190among boys
Babies in 2025
11about 1 in 160,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 11 boys in the US were named Andersson, making it the 7,190th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1994.

Half of all the boys named Andersson in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 936 boys in the US were given Andersson or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #359, up from #7,190 for this spelling alone.

1994Busiest: 13 in 20182025
Andersson in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202511#7,190
20246#10,930
20237#9,757
202212#6,822
20215#12,141
202010#7,497
20198#8,883
201813#6,341
20176#10,770
20168#8,811
20155#12,080
20147#9,636
20137#9,650
20125#12,267
20110–
20106#10,759
20097#9,859
20085#12,546
20070–
20060–
20055#11,464
20040–
20030–
20020–
20016#9,236
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19960–
19950–
19946#7,764

Names like Andersson

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Andersson

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