Anders

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Wladyslaw, Polish soldier

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

/andes`/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Anders 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.

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)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Wladyslaw, Polish soldier

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Anders 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 Anders 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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 name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Änders, Andeŕs, Aenders

  • Spanish given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Spain, Peru

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ander'S, Ánders, Aňdërš, Ändër'S, Àndèrs

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Andérs

  • Polish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Slovakia, Poland, Norway

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Anderš

  • a separate given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, 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(measured from records)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHej Anders,Hi Anders, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 82 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—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—12K#173
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6.6K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Navne til nyfødte (1985–present)2007214#43
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#20,908
NO NorwaySSB — Navn (1880–present)202513—

Reference works 9

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

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Anders mean, and where does it come from?
Wladyslaw, Polish soldier Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
How do you pronounce Anders?
A machine transcription gives /andes`/ (IPA) for Swedish.
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.
In which country does Anders have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 183 thousand people named Anders, more than in any other country we hold, 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.
What are other forms of the name Anders?
In the etymology graph, Andrew, Andres and Andre are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Anders?
In Sweden, the national register counted 182,968 people named Anders, about 1 in 56 residents.
How common is Anders compared with other names?
In Sweden, Anders 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, “Anders” — the 6th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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