How Many People Are Named Zander?
people named Zander are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 11,992 people in the US has this name
Based on 28,786 babies named Zander in Social Security records from 1915 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
1,600 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of XANDER.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Zander in English. Counting Zander and these spellings together, about 68,488 people alive in the US have the name.
Related & Similar Names
⚧ Gender Distribution
Almost all of the babies given the name Zander (99.9%) were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Zander alive today is about 12 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 6 and 17 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Zander first appears in the records in 1915 and was given most often in 2013, to 1,600 babies. In 2025, 804 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1915 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Zander has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #230, in 2013. In 2025 it ranked #397.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #397 |
| Best rank | #230 (2013) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #258 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Zander alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Zander were born in California than in any other state: about 2,109 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Zander was given 3.2 times as often in North Dakota, 2.6 times in West Virginia and 2.5 times in Montana.
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