Andi
Masculine · “Greek "manly”
Andi is given to both — 879 boys and 7,266 girls since 1880. See Andi as a girl nameSee other names given to both
The same clip reads male in one country and female in another. Andi is the standard German familiar form of Andreas, used by men throughout the German-speaking world; in English it reads as a woman's name, from Andrea — and neither side finds the other obvious.
How old is the name Andi?
Andi first appears in US birth records in 1974 — 51 years ago. The typical Andi alive today was born around 2007, making them about 18 years old. About 900 people named Andi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andi most popular?
Andi peaked in 2005, reaching #2182 nationally. Today it ranks #7679, 5,497 places below that high. See the whole 2005 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andi
The story of Andi
Diminutive endings carry sex differently in different languages, and the mismatches are systematic. German uses -i freely for men — Andi, Rudi, Fritzi, Michi, Uli — where American English hears -i as female. English -y and -ie split by convention, with -ie leaning female. Italian -a is masculine in Andrea and Luca and feminine almost everywhere in English. The result is that a German Andi arriving in America is read as a woman on paper, and an American Andi in Germany as a man. Neither reading is wrong; each is a local rule applied to a name that has no international one. The American male figures for Andi peak in 2005.
Meaning
Greek "manly, of a man"
From andreios, manly, from anēr, andros, a man. Andi is a clip of Andreas in German, of Andrew in English, and of Andrea in both — where Andrea is masculine in Italian and feminine in English and German. Andi is also a standard men's name in Albania and Indonesia. The -i ending reads as feminine in American English and as informal-masculine in German.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andi
Related forms: Andi · Andi · Andy
Pronouncing Andi
AN-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Andi and Andy are pronounced identically; only the spelling carries any signal, and it signals different things in different countries.
Nicknames for Andi
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
- 1974
- Most boys named
- 200555 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2182reached in 2005
- Change vs 2024
- −23.1%10 in 2025, from 13
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.
Andi in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andi in German — same name
- Andi in Albanian — same name
- Andy in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, California.
Andis among us
people named Andi are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 170,808 born in 2025 was named Andi
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Andi
- #7679
- Andi on the 2025 chart
- #492
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Andi went to 10 boys in 2025, but Andy is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 534, which makes it the 492nd most-given boys’ name of the year — 7,187 places above the chart.
- Andy524
- Andi10
About 1 boy in 3,199 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 170,808 for Andi 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 Glendal test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andi's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Glendal climbed just as high around 1943, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Glendal's path sketches the road Andi is walking now.
Andi 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
Andi beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andi in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The root meaning is settled and shared with a very widespread name.
- It is short, phonetic and impossible to mispronounce.
- It works as a standalone name in several European countries.
- In America the -i spelling reads as female.
- It is heard as a nickname rather than a full legal name.
- Andy is the standard English spelling.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andis are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Andi are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Andi?
- Andi is one of 2 recorded spellings. Andy is the more common one — 524 births in 2025 against 10 for Andi.
- How popular is the name Andi in 2025?
- Andi ranks #7679 among US boy names in 2025, with 10 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andi?
- About 1 in every 170,808 US boys born in 2025 was named Andi — 10 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andi with classmates?
- Andi will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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