Andee
Feminine · “manly”
Andee is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 1,181 girls against 5 boys since 1880.
Andrea in Italy is a man's name. The Greek root behind it, andros, means man, and Italian took the masculine form; English-speaking countries took the same word as a woman's name without noticing what it says. Andee is a feminine clip of a name that means manly.
How old is the name Andee?
Andee first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Andee alive today was born around 2004, making them about 21 years old. About 1,200 people named Andee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andee most popular?
Andee peaked in 1995, reaching #3422 nationally. Today it ranks #6546, 3,124 places below that high. See the whole 1995 chart.
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Where it comes from
From andreios to Andee
The story of Andee
Greek made adjectives from nouns freely, and andreios, manly, was one of the standard virtue words, closer to courageous than to male in everyday use; the abstract noun andreia is one of the four cardinal virtues in Plato. The apostle's name carried it across Europe. What happened next depended on the language: Italian kept Andrea masculine and formed Andreina for women, while English formed Andrea as a feminine in the eighteenth century and it became widespread in the twentieth. Andee is a clipped and respelled form of the English feminine, and its best year in United States records is 1995.
Meaning
manly, of a man
From Greek andreios, manly or courageous, from aner, genitive andros, a man. The apostle Andrew carried the Greek Andreas. Italian, and to a lesser extent German and Dutch, kept Andrea as the masculine form, while English, Spanish and the Slavic languages built a feminine from it. Both are correct within their own traditions and they mean the same thing.
How the name formed
- andreios
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Andee
Related forms: Andi · Andy · Andreina · Andrea
Pronouncing Andee
AN-dee
Two syllables with the stress on the first. Identical to Andy and Andi, which are the more common spellings and are read as male and female respectively.
Nicknames for Andee
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1947
- Most girls named
- 201541 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3422reached in 1995
- Change vs 2024
- +21.4%17 in 2025, from 14
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Andee in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andi in English — spelling variant
- Andy in English — spelling variant
- Andreina in Italian — related form
- Andrea in Spanish — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Andees among us
people named Andee are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 94,545 born in 2025 was named Andee
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Andee
- #6546
- Andee on the 2025 chart
- #938
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Andee went to 17 girls in 2025, but Ande is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 22, which makes it the 938th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,608 places above the chart.
- Andee17
- Ande5
About 1 girl in 73,058 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,545 for Andee itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Darrelyn test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andee's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Darrelyn climbed just as high around 1950, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Darrelyn's path sketches the road Andee is walking now.
Andee sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Andee beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andee in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning and one of the twelve apostles behind the family.
- Short, warm and completely familiar to every English speaker.
- The double e marks it as a woman's spelling, which Andy does not.
- Andy is read as a man's name and Andee will be written as Andy constantly.
- The name means manly, which is worth knowing before explaining it.
- It reads as a short form, so people will ask for the full version.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Andee are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Andee?
- Andee is the most-used spelling in US records — 17 of the 22 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Ande.
- How popular is the name Andee in 2025?
- Andee ranks #6546 among US girl names in 2025, with 17 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andee?
- About 1 in every 94,545 US girls born in 2025 was named Andee — 17 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andee with classmates?
- Andee will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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