Andre
Masculine · “of a man”
Andre is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 130,656 boys against 2,205 girls since 1880. See Andre as a girl name
André carries an accent in French, and American records do not. The mark is not decoration there: it tells a French reader that the first vowel is closed and that the stress is at the back. Strip it and the name loses its instructions, which is why the same four letters are said two quite different ways on the two sides of the Atlantic.
How old is the name Andre?
Andre was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Andre alive today was born around 1988, making them about 37 years old. About 119,000 people named Andre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andre most popular?
Andre peaked in 1984, reaching #119 nationally. Today it ranks #368, 249 places below that high. See the whole 1984 chart.
Andre appears on these lists:
- French names with effortless chic
- Latin American and Caribbean names
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Works in French families too:
Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andre
The story of Andre
The Orthodox churches give him a title the western church does not use: the First-Called. The gospel account has him following first and then going to fetch his brother, which makes the more famous of the two a second arrival, and the eastern tradition has never let that detail go. It matters more than it sounds. The see of Constantinople claims him as its founder in the way Rome claims his brother, so the title carries a quiet argument about precedence between the two halves of Christendom that has been running for a very long time. A single adverb in one gospel verse, doing a thousand years of diplomatic work.
Meaning
of a man; manly
Greek, built on the word for a man in the sense of an adult male rather than a person. The name belonged to a fisherman from Galilee whose Greek name in a Jewish family is itself worth noticing.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- André
- Andre
Related forms: André · André · Andrés · Andrei · Andreas
Pronouncing Andre
AHN-dray
Two syllables. French puts the weight at the back and closes the first vowel; American English often fronts the stress instead, and both are widely heard.
Nicknames for Andre
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
- 1880
- Most boys named
- 19702,510 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #119reached in 1984
- Change vs 2023
- −18.7%868 in 2025, from 1,068
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.
Andre in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- André in French — same name
- André in Portuguese — same name
- Andrés in Spanish — same name
- Andrei in Russian — same name
- Andreas in Greek — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Andres among us
people named Andre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 1,968 born in 2025 was named Andre
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 Orville test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Orville climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Orville's path sketches the road Andre is walking now.
Andre 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
Where Andre is headed
Andre should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Andre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It travels: close forms exist across Europe and are recognized everywhere.
- Dre is a short form that sounds entirely current and needs no explaining.
- The name has been in continuous American use for the whole length of the record.
- The stress is genuinely unsettled between the French and American readings.
- The accent that would fix it is stripped by most American forms and systems.
- The record holds girls as well, and the girl is much the smaller side.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 119,000 people named Andre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andre in 2025?
- Andre ranks #368 among US boy names in 2025, with 868 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andre?
- About 1 in every 1,968 US boys born in 2025 was named Andre — 868 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andre with classmates?
- Andre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Andre
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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