Andrew

"Andrey" redirects here. For the Swiss footballer, see Claude Andrey.

For other uses, see Andrew (disambiguation).

Andrew

Gender	Male
Origin
Word/name	Greek
Meaning	"manly" and strong
Other names
Related names	Andy, Andre, Andrea, Andreas, Andrey, Andrzej, Andrés, Drew Andrinna

Andrew is the English form of a given name and surname common in many countries. Alternatives include André, Andrey, Andrei, Andrés, Andreas, Andreu, Anders and Endrew. ‘Andrew’ is a common name in English-speaking countries. In the 1990s it was among the top ten most popular names for boys in those countries. In Italian, the equivalent to ‘Andrew’ is ‘Andrea’, though ‘Andrea’ is feminine in most other languages.

The word comes from old greek 'ανήρ/άνδρος' 'aner/andros', meaning "male".

Andrew is frequently shortened to ‘Andy' or ‘Drew’.

Popularity

Australia

In 1990, Andrew was the seventh most popular name in Australia. In 1980, it was the 19th most common name, while in 1970, it was the 31st most common name. Andrew was the second most popular boys name in the Northern Territory in 1980. In Victoria, Andrew was the third most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.

Canada

Andrew was the twentieth 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 - 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 among infants, and it was third in 1965.

In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second most common boy's name of the 1990s.

Year	England & Wales	Ireland	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Norway
2006	97th	*	*	*	4th
2005	86th	39th	*	16th	8th
2004	80th	32nd	*	16th	4th
2003	74th	36th	*	17th	4th
2002	63rd	41st	*	17th	5th
2001	56th	37th	*	7th	4th
2000	53rd	31st	*	6th	7th
1999	46th	28th	*	7th	4th
1998	40th	23rd	*	8th	5th
1997	*	*	*	*	1st
1996	*	*	*	*	3rd
1995	*	*	6th	*	2nd

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.

Andrew variants

• Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas : Irish Gaelic for males
• Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra : Scottish Gaelic for males
• Anaru: New Zealand, for males - Maori transliteration of Andrew
• Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for males
• Ander: Basque for males
• Andraž: Slovene for males
• András: Hungarian for males
• Andre: Javanese for males
• Andrei: Romanian for males or macedonian
• André: French, Galician, Portuguese for males
• Andrea: Albanian, Italian for males (the Italian form is usually for males, it is rarely a female name); Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish for females
• Andreea: Romanian for females
• Andreas: Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh for males
• Andrée: French for females
• Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for males
• Andrey: Russian and Bulgarian for males (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrey for both); Romanian for males
• Andreia: Portuguese for females
• Andrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Czech, Croatian and Serbian, Slovene for males
• Andraš Prekmurian for males
• Andreja: Croatian, Slovene for females
• Andres: Estonian for males
• Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish for males
• Andreu: Catalan for males
• Andreus: Greek
• Andrew: English for males
• Andric: English for males
• Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans for males
• Andrija: Croatian & Serbian for males
• Andris: Latvian for males
• Andrius: Lithuanian for males
• Andriy: Ukrainian for males
• Andrzej or Jedrzej: Polish for males
• Ondřej: Czech for males
• Indri: Maltese for males
• In Albanian: Andrea, Endri, Ndreçi, Ndri

For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms

Famous Andrews

Saint Andrew

In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles.

Saint Andrew

Other saints named Andrew include:

• Saint Andrew of Trier (d. 235), Bishop of Trier
• Saint Andrew of Crete, an 8th century theologian, homilist, and hymnographer
• Saint Andrew of Crete (martyr)
• Saint Andrew of Constantinople
• Saints Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran, Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen, Andrew Trong Van Tram, and Andrew Tuong of the Vietnamese Martyrs
• Saint Andrew Kim Taegon of the Korean Martyrs

Kings Andrew

• King Andrew I of Hungary
• King Andrew II of Hungary
• King Andrew III of Hungary

Princes Andrew

• Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960–), second son of Elizabeth II
• Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882-1944), the aforementioned's paternal grandfather and namesake
• Edward VIII (1894–1972) bore the name Andrew
• Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972), grandson of George V, was William Henry Andrew Frederick

United States Presidents

• Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States of America)
• Andrew Johnson (17th President of the United States of America)

Business, culture, science and sport

• Andrew Bogut - basketball player
• Andrew Brunette - ice hockey player
• Andrew Buckley - field hockey player
• Andrew Bynum - basketball player
• Andrew Carnegie - steel magnate and philanthropist
• Andrew "Dice" Clay - comedian
• Andrew Cole - footballer
• Andrew Clayton - freestyle swimmer
• Andrew Davies - screenwriter
• Andrew Flintoff - cricketer
• Andrew Rube Foster - Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
• Andrew Gaze - basketball player
• Andrew Graham-Dixon - art historian and broadcaster
• Andy Griffith - actor/singer/comedian
• Andrew Huxley - physiologist
• Andrew Hastie - field hockey player
• Andrew Johns - rugby league player
• Andrew Johnson - footballer
• Andrew Johnston - actor
• Andy Kaufman - comedian
• Andrew Knott - English actor
• Andrew Lang - man of letters
• Andrew Lincoln - British actor
• Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer and impresario
• Andrew Marr - broadcaster
• Andrew Marvell - poet
• Andrew Murray - tennis player
• Andrew Neil - political journalist and broadcaster
• Andrew Raycroft - ice hockey player
• Andrew Ridgeley - English musician
• Andrew Robinson - water polo player
• Andrew Sachs - character actor
• Andrew Sega - American musician
• Andrew "Andy" Shernoff - songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The Dictators
• Andrew Stanton - "Pixar" producer, director, voice actor, and screenwriter
• Andrew Stockdale - guitarist and singer of Wolfmother
• Andrew Symonds - cricketer
• Andrew Timlin - field hockey player
• Andrew Toney - basketball player
• Andy Van Slyke - baseball player
• Andrew Walter - American football player
• Andy Warhol - famous Pop artist
• Andrew Wood (singer) - singer
• Andrew Wagner - American film director

Brother Andrew

• Brother Andrew is a Christian famed for his message to the oppressed church behind the Iron Curtain and for founding the charity Open Doors.

The Andrew

The Andrew or Andrew Miller is a well-known nickname for the Royal Navy, from a legendary press-gang officer of that name. [1]

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Andrew
• All pages with titles beginning with Andy
• All pages with titles beginning with Drew
• Andy (given name)
• Andre
• Andreas
• Andrey
• Andrea
• Andreou