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The table below indicates the number of times the name Anderson has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Anderson**
Use of the Name Anderson for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
11,714	5,485	3,830	2,315	1,424	703	366

The table below indicates the number of times the name Anderson has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Anderson**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	252	43
1881	245	40
1882	215	58
1883	263	38
1884	247	48
1885	256	42
1886	294	34
1887	254	39
1888	261	46
1889	251	42
1890	216	59
1891	305	30
1892	270	44
1893	258	46
1894	241	50
1895	329	31
1896	296	39
1897	258	46
1898	276	43
1899	347	27
1900	275	56
1901	360	26
1902	318	37
1903	353	30
1904	274	49
1905	299	45
1906	302	46
1907	417	30
1908	335	45
1909	325	50
1910	351	52
1911	372	56
1912	424	85
1913	454	90
1914	458	110
1915	505	121
1916	485	136
1917	509	127
1918	518	134
1919	487	150
1920	453	180
1921	546	130
1922	527	139
1923	500	150
1924	537	138
1925	537	130
1926	512	139
1927	530	133
1928	534	129
1929	596	102
1930	549	120
1931	586	99
1932	619	92
1933	559	104
1934	630	91
1935	632	86
1936	561	105
1937	635	85
1938	608	95
1939	570	101
1940	589	101
1941	615	95
1942	581	114
1943	637	99
1944	650	91
1945	610	98
1946	660	95
1947	636	117
1948	685	95
1949	641	113
1950	666	109
1951	689	102
1952	684	103
1953	674	111
1954	663	118
1955	731	99
1956	752	95
1957	719	107
1958	755	95
1959	787	95
1960	831	83
1961	782	94
1962	842	81
1963
1964	845	81
1965	825	80
1966	870	70
1967	819	77
1968
1969	905	71
1970	929	73
1971	896	82
1972	915	76
1973	940	73
1974	998	67
1975
1976	960	75
1977
1978	959	81
1979
1980
1981
1982	942	90
1983	938	88
1984	986	81
1985	931	95
1986	957	91
1987	994	91
1988	912	109
1989	966	111
1990	880	136
1991	821	158
1992	852	154
1993	893	143
1994	814	168
1995	856	160
1996	808	178
1997	815	179
1998	872	166
1999	765	208
2000	780	211
2001	749	229
2002	663	281
2003	614	337
2004	594	366
Totals:		11,714		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Anderson as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Anderson appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 118 times during the last 125 years.

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