Anders

given name · Danish · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Anders is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Danish and Swedish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Wladyslaw, Polish soldier.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 56◐
  • DKDenmark1 in 178
  • NONorway1 in 290

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈249K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
245 ●

91K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 56 ◐

Sweden

Meaning & origin●

Wladyslaw, Polish soldier

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anders is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#8182,968△39K rec.1 in 56183KAnders189
DK Denmark#1632,98017K rec.1 in 17833KAnders211
NO Norway#1818,84513K rec.1 in 29069KAnders124
US United States—6,86616K rec.1 in 48K16KAnders245
FI Finland#3486,581△576 rec.1 in 84712KAnders55
GB United Kingdom—1,7381.1K rec.—3Anders78
BJ Benin#4990996 rec.——Anders8
CA Canada—523567 rec.—11Anders56
EE Estonia#845349159 rec.—142Anders20
GL Greenland#421897 rec.—158Anders14
NL Netherlands—177239 rec.—82Anders27
AX Åland Islands#631739 rec.—162Anders7

Roughly 183K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 56). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Danish197K40%
  • Swedish71K14%
  • Norwegian Bokmål69K14%
  • Finnish50K10%
  • English35K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Danish197,46540%
Swedish70,83914%
Norwegian Bokmål69,22014%
Finnish50,08810%
English34,8127%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anders is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name229K records spelled Anders12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Änders, Andeŕs, Aenders

  • Spanish given name25K records spelled Anders14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ander'S, Ândêrš, Aňdërš, Andérs, Ändër'S

  • a separate given name11K records spelled Anders2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Norway, United Kingdom

    Also written Andérs

  • Polish given name7.9K records spelled Anders4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Sweden, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Anderš

  • a separate given name5.6K records spelled Anders2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, United States, Sweden, United Kingdom

    Also written Änders

73 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Anders is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, patronymisch zu Andreas (< griech. andreĩos „mannhaft, tapfer“); r-Metathese in der Vollform Anders/Andres; 6678 Belege.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Kurzform zu Andreas; Liquidvariation im Stamm, 6678 Träger.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, männl. Vom., Nebenform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, v. ANDRE

    as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames

  • In German, different, differently

    as a wordA Frequency Dictionary of German

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0100200300400192019401960198020002020316 · 2014

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Anders in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1912–2025
Yearrecords
19125
19137
19146
19155
191610
19179
19188
19197
192010
19215
192210
19235
19259
19275
19298
19317
19325
19346
193610
19375
19397
19416
19426
194310
19449
19457
19469
19476
19489
19497
195012
19517
19527
195312
195411
195511
195615
195717
19588
195915
196021
196122
196218
196318
196424
196515
196612
196722
196815
196923
197032
197129
197224
197323
197421
197532
197626
197732
197843
197938
198029
198148
198242
198360
198444
198567
198675
198768
198880
198972
199085
199187
199285
199380
199486
1995102
1996122
199791
199896
1999123
2000133
2001109
2002118
2003153
2004139
2005127
2006186
2007153
2008174
2009137
2010214
2011207
2012230
2013235
2014316
2015293
2016278
2017290
2018290
2019239
2020278
2021262
2022283
2023287
2024298
2025232

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 106 years between 1912–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1700180019002000Anders Celsius, b. 1701Anders Sandøe Ørsted, b. 1778Anders Jonas Ångström, b. 1814Anders Leonard Zorn, b. 1860Sven Hedin, b. 1865Anders Fogh Rasmussen, b. 1953Anders Thomas Jensen, b. 1972Anders Svensson, b. 1976Anders Behring Breivik, b. 1979Anders Lindegaard, b. 1984

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 79 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Anders
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—183K#9
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202077K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—69K#17
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—33K#13
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202519K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201016K#2,343
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200015K#2,165
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202015K#2,393
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—12K#345
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.9K#3,145
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6.6K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026618—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 565 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anders?
We estimate roughly 249 thousand people bear Anders (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Anders have the most bearers?
We estimate about 183 thousand people bear Anders in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled anders.
Where is Anders most common?
Anders is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 people carrying it.
How common is Anders compared with other names?
In Sweden, Anders is the 8th most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
Is Anders a male or female name?
Anders is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Anders mean?
Recorded meaning: Wladyslaw, Polish soldier
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Anders” — the 8th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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