Andree
Masculine · “of a man”
Andree is given to both — 1,090 boys and 1,944 girls since 1880. See Andree as a girl nameSee other names given to both
In French this spelling is the feminine. André is the man; Andrée with the extra e is the woman, and the two are as clearly distinguished there as Michel and Michelle. The American record holds this spelling mostly for boys, which reverses the signal entirely.
How old is the name Andree?
Andree first appears in US birth records in 1949 — 76 years ago. The typical Andree alive today was born around 1999, making them about 26 years old. About 1,000 people named Andree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andree most popular?
Andree peaked in 1969, reaching #1977 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,419 places below that high. See the whole 1969 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andree
The story of Andree
A Swede with this surname tried to reach the North Pole in a balloon and vanished. He and two companions lifted off from Spitsbergen in eighteen ninety-seven, the balloon iced up and came down within days, and they walked and drifted south across the pack ice until they died on an island that autumn. Nothing was heard for thirty-three years, when a sealing ship found the camp: the bodies, the diaries, and rolls of exposed film. The film was developed and most of it came out. There are photographs of the crashed balloon taken by men who did not survive the week.
Meaning
of a man; manly
Greek, built on the word for an adult male. The irony of a feminine ending on that particular stem is genuine and was presumably invisible to everyone involved.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- André
- Andree
Related forms: André · Andrée · Andrés
Pronouncing Andree
AHN-dray
Two syllables. French puts the weight at the back; American speakers often front it, and the doubled e at least makes the final syllable unambiguous.
Nicknames for Andree
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
- 1949
- Most boys named
- 201127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1977reached in 1969
- Change vs 2023
- −4.2%23 in 2025, from 24
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.
Andree in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- André in French — same name
- Andrée in Swedish — spelling variant
- Andrés in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Arizona.
Andrees among us
people named Andree are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Andree
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Andree
- #4396
- Andree on the 2025 chart
- #349
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Andree went to 23 boys in 2025, but Andre is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 891, which makes it the 349th most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,047 places above the chart.
- Andre868
- Andree23
About 1 boy in 1,917 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 74,264 for Andree itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Filbert test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andree's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Filbert climbed just as high around 1938, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Filbert's path sketches the road Andree is walking now.
Andree 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
Andree beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andree in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The double e removes an ambiguity the accentless spelling creates.
- Dre works as a short form and is entirely current.
- The name travels across most of Europe unchanged.
- In French this is the woman's spelling, which travelers will notice.
- The record holds girls as well, and the girl is the smaller side.
- The stress is genuinely unsettled between the two readings.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andrees are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,000 people named Andree are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Andree?
- Andree is one of 2 recorded spellings. Andre is the more common one — 868 births in 2025 against 23 for Andree.
- How popular is the name Andree in 2025?
- Andree ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andree?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Andree — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andree with classmates?
- Andree will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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