Andy
Feminine · “manly”
Andy is given to boys far more often — 94,185 boys against 1,307 girls since 1880. See Andy as a boy name
Andy for a girl belongs to the mid-century American habit of registering women under men's short forms, and Andrea is the parent.
How old is the name Andy?
Andy first appears in US birth records in 1917 — 108 years ago. The typical Andy alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 1,200 people named Andy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andy most popular?
Andy peaked in 1959, reaching #2339 nationally. Today it ranks #4460, 2,121 places below that high. See the whole 1959 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Andy
Ours, offered as ours. There is a small irony in a women's name that means manly, and it is not unique — Andrea, Andrina and Alexandra all descend from words about men, because Greek and Latin naming built women's forms from men's names as a matter of course rather than of meaning. Nobody hearing Andrea thinks manly. Andy for a girl adds another layer to a name that had already stopped meaning what it says.
Meaning
manly, of a man
From Greek andreios, manly, on aner, a man; Andrea is the women's form in most European languages and a men's name in Italy. The short form Andy serves both.
Pronouncing Andy
AN-dee
Two syllables, first stressed. There is no variation in English.
Nicknames for Andy
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
- 1917
- Most girls named
- 201942 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2339reached in 1959
- Change vs 2023
- −13.9%31 in 2025, from 36
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.
Andy in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in English — related form
- Andi in English — spelling variant
- Andreas in Greek — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Andys among us
people named Andy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 51,847 born in 2025 was named Andy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Andy
- #4460
- Andy on the 2025 chart
- #523
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Andy went to 31 girls in 2025, but Andi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 490, which makes it the 523rd most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,937 places above the chart.
- Andi459
- Andy31
About 1 girl in 3,280 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 51,847 for Andy 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 Murielle test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Andy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Murielle climbed just as high around 1927, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Murielle's path sketches the road Andy is walking now.
Andy 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 Andy is headed
Andy should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Andy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Andy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Andrea and Alexandra both stand behind it as fuller formal options.
- Warm and immediately friendly, and understood by everyone.
- Four letters and two syllables, about as easy to write as a name gets.
- It is far more common for men and she will correct assumptions.
- Andi is the more usual women's spelling in American records.
- It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Andy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Andy?
- Andy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Andi is the more common one — 459 births in 2025 against 31 for Andy.
- How popular is the name Andy in 2025?
- Andy ranks #4460 among US girl names in 2025, with 31 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Andy?
- About 1 in every 51,847 US girls born in 2025 was named Andy — 31 in all.
- Will my child share the name Andy with classmates?
- Andy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Andy
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