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 for boys in English-speaking countries. In Italian, the equivalent to "Andrew" is "Andrea", though "Andrea" is feminine in most other languages. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas, itself related to Ancient Greek: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.
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 boys name 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.
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 – 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.
In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth most common boy's name among infants, and it was third in 1964.
In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second most common boy's name of the 1990s.
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
Andro: Georgia for males
Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra: Scottish Gaelic for males
Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas: Irish Gaelic for males
Anaru: New Zealand, for males – Maori transliteration of Andrew
Andra: Scots for males
Ander: Basque for males
Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for males
András, Endre: Hungarian for males
Andraš: Prekmurje dialect of Slovene for males
Andraž: Slovene for males
Andre or André: French for males, Portuguese for males
Andrea: Albanian, Italian for males; Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish, Swedish for females
Andreu: Catalan for males
Andreas: Armenian, Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh for males
Andreea: Romanian for females
Andrée: French for females
Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for males
Andrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Belarusian, Russian or Macedonian for males
Andreia: Portuguese for females
Andreina: Italian for females
Andris: Latvian for males
Andrei: Romanian for males
Andrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Croatian and Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene or Belarusian for males
Andrey: Russian and Bulgarian for males (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrei for both)
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
Andri: Icelandic for males
Andrii: Ukrainian for males
Andrija: Croatian and Serbian for males
Andrijana: Serbian for females
Andris or Andrejs: Latvian for males
Aindriú: Gaeilge for males
Andrius: Lithuanian for males
Andriy: Ukrainian for males
Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish for males
Andrzeja: Polish for females; obsolete
Antti: Finnish for males
Ondřej: Czech for males
Ondrej: Slovak for males
Andrij: Ukrainian for males
Indri: Maltese for males
In Albanian: Andrea, Andreu, André, Ndré, Ndreu, Andër, Andërs, only for males
アンデルー: Japanese for males
安德鲁: Mandarin Chinese for males
أندرو: Arabic for males
For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms
Saint Andrew
In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles.
Other saints named Andrew include:
Saint Andrew of Trier (d. 235), Bishop of Trier
Saint Andrew of Crete, an 8th-century archbishop, 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
Dukes Andrew
Andrius Algirdaitis (1325–1399), first son of Algirdas
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
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 Abercromby – Scottish biomedical engineer and aquanaut
Andrew Bayes – American football player
Andy Biersack – lead vocalist of American rock band Black Veil Brides
Andrew Bird – American musician
Andrew Bloom – American Olympic shot putter
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 Craig - keyboardist for The Nightrain
Andrew "Dice" Clay – comedian
Andrew Dost – Guitarist
Andrew Clayton – freestyle swimmer
Andrew Cole – footballer
Andrew Davies – screenwriter
Andy Dawson (born 1978) – English footballer
Andy Dawson (born 1979) – English footballer
Andrew Digby an astronomer and ecologist whose work focusses on researching and conserving New Zealand's endangered endemic birds.
Andrew J. Feustel – American astronaut
Andrew Flintoff – cricketer
Andrew Rube Foster – Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
Andrew Garfield – actor
Andrew Gaze – basketball player
Andy Gibb – pop singer and composer
Andrew Graham-Dixon – art historian and broadcaster
Andy Griffith – actor/singer/comedian
Andrew Grove - businessman/engineer/author and a science pioneer
Andrew Hastie – field hockey player
Andrew Hussie - an artist at MSPAINTADVENTURES
Andrew Huxley – physiologist
Andrew Jacobs – New York Times journalist, and documentary film director and producer
Andrew Jacobson - Major League Soccer player
Andrew Jayamanne - Sri Lankan film director
Andrew Johns – rugby league player
Andrew Johnson – footballer
Andrew Johnston – actor
Andy Kaufman – comedian
Andrew Knott – English actor
Andrew Ladd – ice hockey player
Andrew Lang – man of letters
Andrew Lee Potts – actor/director
Andrej Lemanis – Australian basketball coach
Andrew Lincoln – British actor
Andrew Lloyd Webber – composer and impresario
Andrew Lorraine – American baseball player
Andrew Luck – American football player
Andrej Mangold – German basketball player
Andrew Marr – broadcaster
Andrew Marvell – poet
Andrew McCullough – Australian Rugby League player
Andrew McCutchen – baseball player
Andrew Mehrtens – rugby union player
Andrew Mellon – American businessman, philanthropist and politician
Andrew Murray – tennis player
Andrew Neil – political journalist and broadcaster
Andrew Provence – American football player
Andrew Raycroft – ice hockey player
Andy Richter – actor/writer/comedian
Andrew Ridgeley – English musician, George Michael's partner in Wham!
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 Stahl – television and film actor
Andrew Stanton – "Pixar" producer, director, voice actor, and screenwriter
Andrew Stevovich - American visual artist
Andrew Stockdale – guitarist and singer of Wolfmother
Andrew Symonds – cricketer
Andrew Tanenbaum – Computer Scientist
Andrew Timlin – field hockey player
Andrew Toney – basketball player
Andy Van Slyke – baseball player
Andrew VanWyngarden – musician
Andrew W.K. – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker
Andrew Wagner – American film director
Andrew Walter – American football player
Andy Warhol – famous Pop artist
Andrew Wiles – British mathematician, proved Fermat's Last Theorem
Andrew Wiggins – Canadian basketball player
Andrew Wood – singer for grunge band Mother Love Bone
Andrew Wyeth – American visual artist
Andrew Kumarage - 3rd Anglican Bishop of Kurunegala
Andrew, angel of death from Touched by an Angel
Andrew, robot from Isaac Asimov's 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man and its 1999 film adaptation
Andy Botwin from the TV series Weeds
Andy Bernard from the TV series The Office
Andy Davis, character from Disney Pixar's Toy Story and its sequels
Andy Dufresne, from the Stephen King novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the film adaption The Shawshank Redemption
Andrew Ryan from the video game BioShock
Drew Torres, from Degrassi: The Next Generation
Andrew Wiggin aka Ender Wiggin, the title character from Orson Scott Card's famous science fiction novel Ender's Game
Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, central character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace
Andy Dwyer, a character from the TV series Parks and Recreation
Andrew Fillier, a character in the film Cyberbully
