Andraya
Feminine · “Greek andreios”
Andrea is a man's name in Italy. Andrea Bocelli, Andrea Palladio, Andrea del Sarto: the -a ending that English reads as female is the Italian reflex of a Greek masculine ending, and the two languages have been reading the same letters in opposite ways for centuries.
How old is the name Andraya?
Andraya first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Andraya alive today was born around 2003, making them about 22 years old. About 1,100 people named Andraya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andraya most popular?
Andraya peaked in 2013, reaching #3267 nationally. Today it ranks #10107, 6,840 places below that high. See the whole 2013 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andraya
The story of Andraya
Greek made men's names ending in -as, and Latin turned many of them into -a: Andreas became Andrea, Luca and Nicola behave the same way, and Italian kept all three as male names. English, whose feminine marker is exactly that -a, read the ending its own way, and Andrea became a woman's name in the English-speaking world while remaining a man's name in Italy. The confusion is entirely orthographic and it runs both ways: an Italian meeting an English Andrea assumes a man, and an American meeting Andrea Pirlo assumes a woman. The underlying meaning makes the irony sharper, since the Greek root is the word for a man. Andraya is a modern American respelling that writes the sound out and removes any doubt about which reading is intended.
Meaning
Greek andreios, manly, from aner, a man
Andraya is an American respelling of Andrea, the feminine in English and the masculine in Italian, from Greek Andreas, built on aner, a man. The name is therefore female in English and male in Italian by the same logic applied to the same letters. The peak of this spelling is 2013.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Andraya
Related forms: Andrea · Andrea · Andrea
Pronouncing Andraya
an-DRAY-uh
Three syllables, stress on the second. English Andrea is usually AN-dree-uh; this spelling forces the other reading, which is the Italian one.
Nicknames for Andraya
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
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 201349 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3267reached in 2013
- Change vs 2024
- −18.2%9 in 2025, from 11
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.
Andraya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in Italian — same name
- Andrea in English — spelling variant
- Andrea in Spanish — same name
Andrayas among us
people named Andraya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 178,585 born in 2025 was named Andraya
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 Kellyanne test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andraya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kellyanne climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kellyanne's path sketches the road Andraya is walking now.
Andraya 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
Andraya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andraya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The spelling settles a pronunciation that Andrea leaves open.
- Andi and Raya are two short forms in different styles.
- Three syllables with a strong central stress.
- Andrea is the standard spelling everywhere.
- The name is male in Italian, which surprises people.
- The 2013 peak dates this form to the last decade.
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Feminine · #10107 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Andrayas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Andraya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andraya in 2025?
- Andraya ranks #10107 among US girl names in 2025, with 9 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andraya?
- About 1 in every 178,585 US girls born in 2025 was named Andraya — 9 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andraya with classmates?
- Andraya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Andraya
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