Dandre
Masculine · “manly”
Dandre is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 7,741 boys against 37 girls since 1880.
D'Andre joins the De- prefix to Andre — manly, in Greek — and the prefix is an American naming tool rather than a French particle.
How old is the name Dandre?
Dandre first appears in US birth records in 1957 — 68 years ago. The typical Dandre alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 7,500 people named Dandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dandre most popular?
Dandre peaked in 1996, reaching #536 nationally. Today it ranks #2539, 2,003 places below that high. See the whole 1996 chart.
Where it comes from
From aner to Dandre
Our story of Dandre
Our story of D'Andre is a story of a prefix that became a naming tool. African-American families from the mid-twentieth century took De-, D'-, La- and Ja- as free-standing elements and attached them to existing names: D'Andre, DeShawn, DeMarcus, LaVonne. The Andre half is Greek and means manly; the prefix is American and about seventy years old. Both facts are worth saying together.
Meaning
manly, of a man
The Andre element is from the Greek Andreas, from aner, andros, 'man'. The D'- prefix is an American formation borrowed as a sound from French surnames rather than functioning grammatically. The Greek is documented; the compound is twentieth-century American.
How the name formed
- aner
- Andreas
- Andre
- D'Andre
Related forms: Deandre · André
Pronouncing Dandre
DAHN-dray
Two syllables, stress on the first. Deandre has three with the stress in the middle.
Nicknames for Dandre
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
- 1957
- Most boys named
- 2000364 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #536reached in 1996
- Change vs 2024
- −1.9%52 in 2025, from 53
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.
Dandre in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Deandre in English — spelling variant
- André in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, California.
Dandres among us
people named Dandre are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 32,848 born in 2025 was named Dandre
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 Marcellus test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Dandre's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Marcellus climbed just as high around 1902, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Marcellus's path sketches the road Dandre is walking now.
Dandre 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 Dandre is headed
Dandre is easing off slowly — about 15% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues.
Medium 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.
Dandre beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Dandre in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The manly meaning is genuine Greek and undisputed.
- Andre and Dre are two short forms, both with real records.
- It records a documented American naming tradition.
- The apostrophe is often dropped in records.
- Deandre and D'Andre are both in circulation.
- It is period-coded to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Masculine · #2539 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Dandres are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 7,500 people named Dandre are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dandre in 2025?
- Dandre ranks #2539 among US boy names in 2025, with 52 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Dandre?
- About 1 in every 32,848 US boys born in 2025 was named Dandre — 52 in all.
- Will my child share the name Dandre with classmates?
- Dandre will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Dandre
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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