Ánders

given name · Latin script

Ánders is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 6th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Medieval vernacular form of Andreas (“Andrew”). First recorded in Norway in the 14th century.

rarermore common
  • SESweden1 in 56(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 178
  • NONorway1 in 290

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

182,968 people

Sources
266 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 56 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Anders in SE Sweden, DK Denmark, NO Norway and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Medieval vernacular form of Andreas (“Andrew”). First recorded in Norway in the 14th century.

Sources 7

  • A Dictionary of English Surnames
  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • A Frequency Dictionary of German
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ánders counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ánders is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#6182,9681 in 56183KAnders214
BJ Benin#7≈63,000 est.≈1 in 204—Anders8
DK Denmark#1332,9801 in 17833KAnders223
NO Norway#1218,8451 in 29069KAnders146
CN China—≈13,000 est.≈1 in 111K—Anders14
FI Finland#4026,5811 in 84712KAnders59

182,968 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ánders under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ánders mean, and where does it come from?
Medieval vernacular form of Andreas (“Andrew”). First recorded in Norway in the 14th century. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
Is Ánders a male or female name?
Ánders 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.
In which country does Ánders have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 183 thousand people named Ánders, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled anders.
Where is Ánders most common?
Ánders is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 56 people carrying it.
How common is the name Ánders?
In Sweden, the national register counted 182,968 people named Ánders, about 1 in 56 residents.
How common is Ánders compared with other names?
In Sweden, Ánders is the 6th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Ánders” — the 6th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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