Andreas
Masculine · Greek roots · “manly”
Andreas is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 8,630 boys against 49 girls since 1880.
Andreas is the Greek form of the name the English-speaking world flattened into Andrew, and it has kept its full shape for around two thousand years — through Byzantine Greek, church Latin, German, Dutch and the Nordic languages. Three syllables, the stress landing in the middle, ending on a soft hiss rather than a hard stop. It is the version of the name that never got trimmed.
How old is the name Andreas?
Andreas first appears in US birth records in 1913 — 112 years ago. The typical Andreas alive today was born around 2000, making them about 25 years old. About 8,200 people named Andreas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andreas most popular?
Andreas peaked in 1966, reaching #734 nationally. Today it ranks #1276, 542 places below that high. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas (Greek) to Andreas
The story of Andreas
The name begins in Greek, built on andros, and it belonged to one of the twelve apostles of the New Testament — the Gospels were written in Greek, so Andreas is the original spelling, not a translation of it. Latin took it unchanged, and from Latin it fanned out across Europe, softening into Andrew in English, André in French, Andrés in Spanish, Andrzej in Polish. In Greece, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Scandinavia, though, the full Andreas stayed the everyday form and still is. It reached American records through those immigrant communities and has held a modest, unbroken place ever since.
Meaning
manly, of a man
From the Greek anēr, genitive andros, meaning 'man'.
How the name formed
- AndreasGreek
- AndreasLatin
- Andrew
- André
- Andrés
Related forms: Andrew · Andrés · André · Andrea · Andrei · Andrzej
Pronouncing Andreas
ahn-DRAY-ahs
That is the German and Greek-influenced pronunciation most common in the US. Many American speakers say an-DRAY-us instead, and some anglicize it further to AN-dree-us. All three are in genuine use, so it is worth deciding early which one your family will offer first.
Nicknames for Andreas
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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
- 1913
- Most boys named
- 2006221 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #734reached in 1966
- Change vs 2023
- −11.5%154 in 2025, from 174
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.
Andreas in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrew in English — same name
- Andrés in Spanish — same name
- André in French — same name
- Andrea in Italian — same name
- Andrei in Russian — transliteration
- Andrzej in Polish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Andreass among us
people named Andreas are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 11,091 born in 2025 was named Andreas
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 Malvin test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andreas's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Malvin climbed just as high around 1913, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Malvin's path sketches the road Andreas is walking now.
Andreas 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 Andreas is headed
Andreas 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.
Andreas beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andreas in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Recognized across most of Europe in near-identical form, and read correctly in Greek, German, Dutch and Scandinavian contexts without adjustment.
- Comes with short forms that need no explaining — Andy has been attached to this name for centuries.
- A documented history reaching back to Greek antiquity, with a spelling that has barely moved in that time.
- Familiar to nearly everyone through Andrew, while remaining uncommon enough in American classrooms to stand on its own.
- The pronunciation genuinely varies — ahn-DRAY-ahs, an-DRAY-us, AN-dree-us — and he will spend some of his life correcting people or simply letting them choose. Picking one and using it consistently from the start helps more than anything else.
- Expect the final s to go missing. People who know Andrew will write and say Andrew, and forms and rosters will do it too.
- The s ending makes possessives clumsy in writing — Andreas's, or Andreas' — a small, permanent friction rather than a real problem.
- In Italy, Andrea is the standard male form of this name, while in the US Andrea reads as female. If relatives use the Italian version, be ready to explain it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andreass are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 8,200 people named Andreas are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andreas in 2025?
- Andreas ranks #1276 among US boy names in 2025, with 154 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andreas?
- About 1 in every 11,091 US boys born in 2025 was named Andreas — 154 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andreas with classmates?
- Andreas will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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