Andes

loc · Latin script

Meaning: second-person singular present subjunctive of andar

Andes is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.

  • SDSudan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Record sources
260 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

second-person singular present subjunctive of andar

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

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

Where Andes is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—2.4KAndes260
SD Sudan——Andes1
AR Argentina—101—1
BR Brazil—87——
NL Netherlands—51—11
ES Spain—27—9

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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Andes is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Andès, Andés

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ándes, Andés

51 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)

Andes 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 English, mtn. range, S. America

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In French, synonym of cordillère des Andes (“Andes”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, alternative form of Andecāvī (a Gallic tribe in the region of present-day Anjou)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Asturian, second-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of andar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Catalan, Andes (a mountain range in South America)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
19201940196019802000Keith Andes, b. 1920Mark Andes, b. 1948Troy Andes, b. 1981

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

(measured from records)

37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 20 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Andes mean, and where does it come from?
second-person singular present subjunctive of andar Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Andes have the most bearers?
Andes is most frequently recorded in the United States, where it is most often spelled andes.

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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, “Andes”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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