Anders

Anders is the Scandinavian Andrew, descended from the Greek andreios, manly or brave, and softened by Nordic mouths into two easy syllables. In Norway it is one of the most perennially popular boys' names, the kind that fills classrooms in every generation without ever feeling tired. The astronomer Anders Celsius gave the world a temperature scale under this name in 1742, and Anders Zorn the Swedish painter made its twentieth-century presence quietly luminous. It reads approachable, steady, and faintly scholarly. Like a good wool sweater, Anders is warm, well-made, and exactly what the weather calls for. A Nordic classic that travels well.