Originally, Anderson was an English surname meaning ‘son of Andrew’.
Anderson is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Anderson isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Anderson ranks 296. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 7 were named Anderson. In the entire USA, approximately 26,098 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Anderson. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
Originally, Anderson was an English surname meaning ‘son of Andrew’.
Apart from ... English-speaking countries, Anderson is a popular name in Brazil.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Anderson annualy. This means that there have been boys named Anderson who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Anderson have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Anderson even more than any other time: in 1882, it holds its present record at rank #204 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Anderson was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Anderson has never been ranked higher than #204. In 2022, he rivaled the 295 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 1,093 boys named Anderson were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Anderson were born, there have been 156 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is a very popular first letter for boys’ names. That’s because 9.0% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letter J is more common for boys' names.
With eight letters, the name Anderson is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 9.0% of all boys' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And by the way: Of all the boys' names that start with an A, Anthony is the most common.
If your name is Anderson and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Anderson, you can simply say:
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Sun
Orange
Nut
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Anderson
Anderson
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Anderson sounds like this:
