Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in List of countries where English is an official language, English-speaking countries. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the el, Ἀνδρέας, ''Andreas'', itself related to grc, ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός ''aner/andros'', "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Version, King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.

Popularity

Australia

In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia. In 1999, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing. In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.

Canada

Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005. Andrew was the 16th most popular name for infants in British Columbia in 2004, the 17th most popular name in 2003, and the 19th most popular name in 2002. In 2001, it was the 18th most common name. From 1999 to 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.

Europe

In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth-most common name given to baby boys, and it was third in 1964. In Scotland, Andrew was the most popular name given to baby boys in 1993, with 1,099 boys given the name that year. In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second-most common name given to boys of the 1990s.

United States

The eleventh most common baby name in 2006, Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005. Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004. In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States. In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular choice of baby name in the United States. In the 1970s it was the 31st most popular name. From the 1960s stretching back at least as far as the 1880s, Andrew was not among the forty most popular names in America.

Variants by language

* Anaru: Māori language, Māori, masculine * Andria: Georgian language, Georgian, masculine * Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra: Scottish Gaelic, masculine * Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas: Irish Gaelic, masculine * Anaru (name), Anaru: Maori, masculine * Andra: Scots language, Scots, masculine * Ander: Basque language, Basque, masculine * Änder: Luxembourgish language, Luxembourgish * Anders: Danish language, Danish, Finnish language, Finnish, German language, German, Norwegian language, Norwegian, Swedish language, Swedish * Andrìa: Sardinian language, Sardinian * Andras: Welsh language, Welsh * András, Endre (disambiguation), Endre: Hungarian language, Hungarian, masculine * Andraš: Prekmurje dialect of Slovene, masculine * Andraž: Slovene language, Slovene, masculine * André: French language, French, English language, English, Latin, Italian language, Italian, Catalan language, Catalan, Luxembourgish language, Luxembourgish, Dutch language, Dutch, Estonian language, Estonian, Romanian language, Romanian, German language, German, Canada, Canadian, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Danish language, Danish, Swedish language, Swedish, Corsican language, Corsican, Icelandic language, Icelandic, Czech language, Czech, Slovak language, Slovak, Slovene language, Slovenian, Polish language, Polish and Portuguese language, Portuguese, masculine * Andrea: Albanian language, Albanian, Italian language, Italian, Latin, masculine; Croatian language, Croatian, Czech language, Czech, Danish language, Danish, Dutch language, Dutch, English language, English, Finnish language, Finnish, French language, French, Galician language, Galician, German language, German, Hungarian language, Hungarian, Icelandic language, Icelandic, Italian language, Italian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, Norwegian language, Norwegian, Polish language, Polish, Romanian language, Romanian, Slovak language, Slovak, Slovenian-language, Slovenian, Spanish language, Spanish, Swedish language, Swedish, feminine * Andréa : French, Portuguese * Andréanne : French, feminine * Andréane : French * Andréana : Malgasy * Andreas: Armenian language, Armenian, Cypriot Greek, Danish language, Danish, German language, German, Greek language, Greek, Norwegian language, Norwegian, Icelandic language, Icelandic, Swedish language, Swedish, Welsh language, Welsh, masculine * Andros_(name), Andros: Greek language, Greek, masculine * Andreu: Catalan language, Catalan, masculine * Andreea: Romanian language, Romanian, feminine * Andrée (given name), Andrée: French language, French, feminine ** wiktionary:Marie-Andrée, Marie-Andrée, wiktionary:Anne-Andrée, Anne-Andrée, wiktionary:Andrée-Anne, Andrée-Anne, wiktionary:Andrée-Marie, Andrée-Marie,French, feminine * Andrees: Older Dutch language, Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans, masculine * Andrei (given name), Andrei: Moldovan language, Moldovan, Romanian language, Romanian, Belarusian language, Belarusian, Russian language, Russian, masculine * Andréia: Portuguese language, Portuguese, feminine * Andreina: Italian language, Italian, feminine * Andris, Andrejs, Andis: Latvian language, Latvian, masculine * Andrej: Belarusian language, Belarusian, Croatian language, Croatian, Macedonian language, Macedonian, Serbian language, Serbian, Slovak language, Slovak, Slovene language, Slovene, masculine * Andrey: Russian language, Russian and Bulgarian language, Bulgarian, masculine (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrei for both) * Andreja: Macedonian language, Macedonian, masculine; Croatian language, Croatian, Slovene language, Slovene, feminine * Andres (name), Andres: Estonian language, Estonian, masculine * Andres (name), Andrés: Icelandic language, Icelandic, Spanish language, Spanish, masculine * Andressa: Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese, feminine * Andreu: Catalan language, Catalan, masculine * Andreus: Latin language, Latin, masculine * Andrew: English language, English, masculine * Andrėja: Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, feminine * Andrėjus: Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, Masculine * , : Georgian language, Georgian, masculine * Andri: Icelandic language, Icelandic, masculine * , : Georgian language, Georgian, masculine * Andric (given name), Andric: English language, English, masculine * Andries: Dutch language, Dutch and Afrikaans, masculine * Andrii: Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, masculine * Andrija: Croatian language, Croatian and Serbian language, Serbian, masculine * Andrijana: Macedonian language, Macedonian, Serbian language, Serbian, feminine * Andis, Andris, Andrejs, Anžejs or Andžejs: Latvian language, Latvian, masculine * Andrius: Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, masculine * Andriy: Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, masculine * Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish language, Polish, masculine * Andrzeja: Polish language, Polish, feminine; obsolete * Aneterea: Samoan language, Samoan, masculine * Anintelu: Tongan language, Tongan, masculine * Antti: Finnish language, Finnish, masculine * Ondřej: Czech language, Czech, masculine * Ondrej or Andrej: Slovak language, Slovak, masculine * Andrij: Ukrainian language, Ukrainian, masculine * Indrì (name), Indrì or Andrija: Maltese language, Maltese, masculine * Andis, Andijs or Endijs: Latvian language, Latvian, masculine * Andrea, Andreu, André, Ndré, Ndreu, Andër, Andërs: Albanian language, Albanian, masculine * : Malayalam, masculine * : Telugu language, Telugu, masculine * : Korean language, Korean, masculine * : Japanese language, Japanese, masculine * : Mandarin Chinese (simplified), masculine * : Mandarin Chinese (traditional), masculine * , : Arabic, masucline * : Amharic, masculine * اندرآي (Romanized: Andrai): Ziyadi, masculine

Surname

*Anderson_(surname), Anderson *Andrews_(surname), Andrews

People named Andrew

* List of people with given name Andrew * Andrew (surname), including a list of people with surname Andrew

References

{{Given name English masculine given names Given names of Greek language origin