Andreana
Feminine · “of a man”
Andrea is already a feminine in English and this lengthens it again. Adding an ending to a name that had been feminised once produces a form marked twice over — which is common enough in American naming and slightly redundant every time it happens.
How old is the name Andreana?
Andreana first appears in US birth records in 1952 — 73 years ago. The typical Andreana alive today was born around 1991, making them about 34 years old. About 1,800 people named Andreana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andreana most popular?
Andreana peaked in 1975, reaching #1729 nationally. See the whole 1975 chart.
Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andreana
The story of Andreana
The ending was borrowed from Latin and applied to a Greek name. Names ending this way — Juliana, Adriana, Mariana — are Latin feminines built on Latin family names, and the pattern is old and regular in that language. Attaching it to a Greek stem that had already been feminised in Italian is a third-hand construction: Greek word, Italian name, Latin ending, American record. Each step was ordinary and the accumulated result is a name whose grammar belongs to three languages that were never asked whether they agreed.
Meaning
of a man; manly
Greek, built on the word for an adult male. Applying two successive feminine endings to that particular stem is a genuine oddity and nobody involved is likely to have noticed.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Andreana
Pronouncing Andreana
an-dree-AH-nuh
Four syllables with the stress on the third. The added ending contributes two full beats to a name that had three.
Nicknames for Andreana
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
- 1952
- Most girls named
- 199072 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1729reached in 1975
- Change vs 2019
- −64.7%6 in 2022, from 17
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.
Andreanas among us
people named Andreana are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Andreana sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Andrea and Ana both sit inside it as complete independent names.
- The rhythm is long and even and rather graceful.
- It is rare while every part of it is completely familiar.
- Four syllables is long and most people will shorten it immediately.
- Adriana and Andriana both sit nearby and get substituted.
- It is closely tied to the decades of its use.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andreanas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,800 people named Andreana are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andreana in 2025?
- Andreana is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Andreana with classmates?
- Andreana will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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