Andreya
Feminine · “manly”
Andrew means manly. The Greek is andreios, from aner, a man — so one of the most widely given women's names in Europe descends from a word that specifically excludes women. Nobody planned this, and by the time anyone noticed, Andrea had been ordinary for a thousand years.
How old is the name Andreya?
Andreya first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Andreya alive today was born around 2002, making them about 23 years old. About 1,100 people named Andreya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andreya most popular?
Andreya peaked in 1998, reaching #2846 nationally. Today it ranks #11932, 9,086 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
Where it comes from
From andros to Andreya
The story of Andreya
Andreas was the first disciple called in John's Gospel, which is why the Greek church calls him the First-Called, and his name spread with Christianity into every European language. What happened next is a straightforward accident of grammar. Latin and Greek names ending in -as could be masculine, and Italian kept Andrea as a man's name on that basis, while French, German and English treated the -a ending as feminine and built a woman's name out of it. Both are correct in their own language, which produces regular confusion on international paperwork. The y in this spelling forces three clear syllables where the ea of Andrea can collapse into two.
Meaning
manly, of a man
From Greek Andreas, built on aner, andros, a man. The same root gives android, androgynous, polyandry and philander. Andrea is the feminine in most of Europe and the masculine in Italy, where it is one of the commonest men's names; Andreya is an American respelling of the feminine.
How the name formed
- andros
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Andreya
Related forms: Andriana · Andrea · Andreyana
Pronouncing Andreya
ahn-DRAY-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. AN-dree-uh, front-loaded, is the commoner English reading of Andrea and is heard here too. The y guarantees the three syllables.
Nicknames for Andreya
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
- 1968
- Most girls named
- 200849 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2846reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- +16.7%7 in 2025, from 6
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.
Andreya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andriana in Greek — related form
- Andrea in Spanish — same name
- Andreyana in Russian — related form
Andreyas among us
people named Andreya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 229,610 born in 2025 was named Andreya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Andreya
- #11932
- Andreya on the 2025 chart
- #948
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Andreya went to 7 girls in 2025, but Andreia is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 12, which makes it the 948th most-given girls’ name of the year — 10,984 places above the chart.
- Andreya7
- Andreia5
About 1 girl in 133,939 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 229,610 for Andreya 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 Francella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andreya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Francella climbed just as high around 1941, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Francella's path sketches the road Andreya is walking now.
Andreya 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
Andreya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andreya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Greek meaning with a shelf of English words to point at.
- Three short forms of quite different registers, one of which serves either child.
- The spelling forces the syllable count the family intends.
- Andrea is far commoner and this spelling will be corrected toward it.
- In Italy the name is a man's, which matters on any international form.
- The meaning is manly, which is either a good story or an awkward one depending on the family.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andreyas 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 Andreya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Andreya?
- Andreya is the most-used spelling in US records — 7 of the 12 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Andreia.
- How popular is the name Andreya in 2025?
- Andreya ranks #11932 among US girl names in 2025, with 7 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andreya?
- About 1 in every 229,610 US girls born in 2025 was named Andreya — 7 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andreya with classmates?
- Andreya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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