Anders
A Scandinavian name with Germanic roots, carrying the plain sense of "man" or "manly". Just 117 men across Poland answer to it, so most Poles have never met one.
Anders Pronunciation
Anders is pronounced AHN-ders (/ˈandɛrs/).
What Anders means
Where Anders comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Anders belongs to the Germanic north, a Scandinavian name whose plain sense is man, or manly. In Polish that meaning lands as mężczyzna, mąż. It stays short. Two syllables, no ornament. In Scandinavia it grew as the everyday form of Andreas.
The most documented Anders is Anders Celsius, the Swedish astronomer who died in 1744 and gave his name to the temperature scale. Anders Zorn, the painter, carried it into the next century's galleries.
In Sweden the name day for Anders falls on 30 November, the feast of Saint Andrew. That saint also stands behind the Polish Andrzej and the fortunes told on Andrzejki. A boy named Anders on a Polish class register sits one saint away from every Andrzej beside him.
How many people are named Anders
1 in 182446 men in Poland is named Anders. 117 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3117 among male names.
Anders as a middle name
Anders is a first name for 117 men in Poland and a middle name for another 98, a 54/46 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 717th, between Rahman (99) and Dean (98).
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#715 Mathew99
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#716 Rahman99
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#717 Anders98
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#718 Dean98
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#719 Guy98