Andie
Feminine · “From the Greek root andr-”
Andie is given to both — 5,532 girls and 211 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Andie is the tail end of Andrew, kept and given its own spelling — two beats, no silent letters, and a shape the ear already knows from Andy. In American records it has been a girl's name, drawn down from Andrea and Alexandra rather than up from the Greek original. It is having its wave now rather than repeating an old one.
How old is the name Andie?
Andie first appears in US birth records in 1945 — 80 years ago. The typical Andie is a kid of about 12 — this name's wave is very recent. About 5,500 people named Andie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andie most popular?
Andie peaked in 2025, reaching #650 nationally. Today it ranks #650, exactly where it peaked. See the whole 2025 chart.
Andie appears on this list:
Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andie
The story of Andie
Andreas was a common Greek personal name long before it traveled, and it spread across Christian Europe as Andrew, Andreas, André and Andrea — the last of these a man's name in Italy and a woman's name almost everywhere else. English speakers have clipped it to Andy for centuries, and the -ie spelling followed the same path that gave Charlie and Frankie their softer look, landing largely on the girls' side of American records. Film gave the spelling a boost: Molly Ringwald played Andie Walsh in John Hughes's Pretty in Pink in 1986, and the actress Andie MacDowell was becoming widely known in the same stretch of years. The name's American climb has been recent and steady rather than nostalgic.
Meaning
From the Greek root andr-, 'man', by way of Andrew and Andrea
Andie is a short form rather than a name coined on its own, so its meaning is borrowed from whichever longer name stands behind it. Most often that is Andrea or Andrew, both from Greek Andreas, built on anēr, andros, 'man' — hence the traditional gloss 'manly, brave'. It also serves as a short form of Alexandra and Cassandra, where the same andr- element sits inside the longer word.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andrew
- Andrea
- Andie
Related forms: Andrea · Andrée · Andrea · Andreia · Andrea · Andreas
Pronouncing Andie
AN-dee
Two syllables, stress on the first, identical in sound to Andy and Andi. The A is flat, as in 'hand'.
Nicknames for Andie
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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
- 1945
- Most girls named
- 2025443 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #650reached in 2025
- Change vs 2024
- +38.4%443 in 2025, from 320
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.
Andie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in Italian — related form
- Andrée in French — related form
- Andrea in Spanish — related form
- Andreia in Portuguese — related form
- Andrea in German — related form
- Andreas in Greek — transliteration
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Andies among us
people named Andie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 3,628 born in 2025 was named Andie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Tana test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Tana climbed just as high around 1962, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Tana's path sketches the road Andie is walking now.
Andie is climbing fast right now. Steep climbs tend to come with steep descents — the quicker a name arrives, the more firmly it belongs to its moment.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Andie is headed
Andie looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 24% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Andie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Says itself on first sight — no one hesitates over how to pronounce it, in any English-speaking country.
- Works either as a standalone name or as the everyday form of Andrea, Alexandra or Cassandra, so a family can decide later how formal to be.
- Sits on a very old root, Greek Andreas, with relatives in Italian, Spanish, French, German and Portuguese.
- Short and consonant-light, so it carries well over long or heavily consonanted surnames.
- Three spellings compete — Andie, Andi and Andy — and none is dominant enough to be assumed. Expect to spell it out over the phone for life, and to receive mail with the other two.
- Said aloud, it is indistinguishable from Andy, which most Americans still hear as a man's name. On paper the -ie spelling reads female; on a voicemail it may not.
- It is rising quickly rather than sitting still. A child named Andie is unlikely to share a classroom with another one now, but the name is moving upward, not resting.
- There is no built-in long form unless you choose one. Some parents like the plainness; others miss having a fuller name for a diploma or a signature.
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Andie
Feminine · #650 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Andies are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 5,500 people named Andie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andie in 2025?
- Andie ranks #650 among US girl names in 2025, with 443 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andie?
- About 1 in every 3,628 US girls born in 2025 was named Andie — 443 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andie with classmates?
- Andie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Andie
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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