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 malesAindrea, Aindreas or Anndra: Scottish Gaelic for malesAindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas: Irish Gaelic for malesAnaru: New Zealand, for males – Maori transliteration of AndrewAndra: Scots for malesAnder: Basque for malesAnders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for malesAndrás, Endre: Hungarian for malesAndraš: Prekmurje dialect of Slovene for malesAndraž: Slovene for malesAndre or André: French for males, Portuguese for malesAndrea: Albanian, Italian for males; Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish, Swedish for femalesAndreu: Catalan for malesAndreas: Armenian, Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh for malesAndreea: Romanian for femalesAndrée: French for femalesAndrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for malesAndrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Belarusian, Russian or Macedonian for malesAndreia: Portuguese for femalesAndreina: Italian for femalesAndris: Latvian for malesAndrei: Romanian for malesAndrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Croatian and Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene or Belarusian for malesAndrey: Russian and Bulgarian for males (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrei for both)Andreja: Croatian, Slovene for femalesAndres: Estonian for malesAndrés: Icelandic, Spanish for malesAndreu: Catalan for malesAndreus: GreekAndrew: English for malesAndric: English for malesAndries: Dutch and Afrikaans for malesAndri: Icelandic for malesAndrii: Ukrainian for malesAndrija: Croatian and Serbian for malesAndrijana: Serbian for femalesAndris or Andrejs: Latvian for malesAindriú: Gaeilge for malesAndrius: Lithuanian for malesAndriy: Ukrainian for malesAndrzej or Jędrzej: Polish for malesAndrzeja: Polish for females; obsoleteAntti: Finnish for malesOndřej: Czech for malesOndrej: Slovak for malesAndrij: Ukrainian for malesIndri: Maltese for malesIn 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 malesأندرو: Arabic for malesFor 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 TrierSaint Andrew of Crete, an 8th-century archbishop, theologian, homilist, and hymnographerSaint Andrew of Crete (martyr)Saint Andrew of ConstantinopleSaints Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran, Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen, Andrew Trong Van Tram, and Andrew Tuong of the Vietnamese MartyrsSaint Andrew Kim Taegon of the Korean MartyrsKings Andrew
King Andrew I of HungaryKing Andrew II of HungaryKing Andrew III of HungaryDukes Andrew
Andrius Algirdaitis (1325–1399), first son of AlgirdasPrinces Andrew
Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960–), second son of Elizabeth IIPrince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882–1944), the aforementioned's paternal grandfather and namesakeEdward VIII (1894–1972) bore the name AndrewPrince William of Gloucester (1941–1972), grandson of George V, was William Henry Andrew FrederickAndrew 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 aquanautAndrew Bayes – American football playerAndy Biersack – lead vocalist of American rock band Black Veil BridesAndrew Bird – American musicianAndrew Bloom – American Olympic shot putterAndrew Bogut – basketball playerAndrew Brunette – ice hockey playerAndrew Buckley – field hockey playerAndrew Bynum – basketball playerAndrew Carnegie – steel magnate and philanthropistAndrew Craig - keyboardist for The NightrainAndrew "Dice" Clay – comedianAndrew Dost – GuitaristAndrew Clayton – freestyle swimmerAndrew Cole – footballerAndrew Davies – screenwriterAndy Dawson (born 1978) – English footballerAndy Dawson (born 1979) – English footballerAndrew Digby an astronomer and ecologist whose work focusses on researching and conserving New Zealand's endangered endemic birds.Andrew J. Feustel – American astronautAndrew Flintoff – cricketerAndrew Rube Foster – Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro LeaguesAndrew Garfield – actorAndrew Gaze – basketball playerAndy Gibb – pop singer and composerAndrew Graham-Dixon – art historian and broadcasterAndy Griffith – actor/singer/comedianAndrew Grove - businessman/engineer/author and a science pioneerAndrew Hastie – field hockey playerAndrew Hussie - an artist at MSPAINTADVENTURESAndrew Huxley – physiologistAndrew Jacobs – New York Times journalist, and documentary film director and producerAndrew Jacobson - Major League Soccer playerAndrew Jayamanne - Sri Lankan film directorAndrew Johns – rugby league playerAndrew Johnson – footballerAndrew Johnston – actorAndy Kaufman – comedianAndrew Knott – English actorAndrew Ladd – ice hockey playerAndrew Lang – man of lettersAndrew Lee Potts – actor/directorAndrej Lemanis – Australian basketball coachAndrew Lincoln – British actorAndrew Lloyd Webber – composer and impresarioAndrew Lorraine – American baseball playerAndrew Luck – American football playerAndrej Mangold – German basketball playerAndrew Marr – broadcasterAndrew Marvell – poetAndrew McCullough – Australian Rugby League playerAndrew McCutchen – baseball playerAndrew Mehrtens – rugby union playerAndrew Mellon – American businessman, philanthropist and politicianAndrew Murray – tennis playerAndrew Neil – political journalist and broadcasterAndrew Provence – American football playerAndrew Raycroft – ice hockey playerAndy Richter – actor/writer/comedianAndrew Ridgeley – English musician, George Michael's partner in Wham!Andrew Robinson – water polo playerAndrew Sachs – character actorAndrew Sega – American musicianAndrew "Andy" Shernoff – songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The DictatorsAndrew Stahl – television and film actorAndrew Stanton – "Pixar" producer, director, voice actor, and screenwriterAndrew Stevovich - American visual artistAndrew Stockdale – guitarist and singer of WolfmotherAndrew Symonds – cricketerAndrew Tanenbaum – Computer ScientistAndrew Timlin – field hockey playerAndrew Toney – basketball playerAndy Van Slyke – baseball playerAndrew VanWyngarden – musicianAndrew W.K. – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speakerAndrew Wagner – American film directorAndrew Walter – American football playerAndy Warhol – famous Pop artistAndrew Wiles – British mathematician, proved Fermat's Last TheoremAndrew Wiggins – Canadian basketball playerAndrew Wood – singer for grunge band Mother Love BoneAndrew Wyeth – American visual artistAndrew Kumarage - 3rd Anglican Bishop of KurunegalaAndrew, angel of death from Touched by an AngelAndrew, robot from Isaac Asimov's 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man and its 1999 film adaptationAndy Botwin from the TV series WeedsAndy Bernard from the TV series The OfficeAndy Davis, character from Disney Pixar's Toy Story and its sequelsAndy Dufresne, from the Stephen King novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the film adaption The Shawshank RedemptionAndrew Ryan from the video game BioShockDrew Torres, from Degrassi: The Next GenerationAndrew Wiggin aka Ender Wiggin, the title character from Orson Scott Card's famous science fiction novel Ender's GameAndrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, central character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and PeaceAndy Dwyer, a character from the TV series Parks and RecreationAndrew Fillier, a character in the film Cyberbully
