Dandrea
Masculine · “Of Andrea”
Dandrea is given to both — 174 boys and 915 girls since 1880. See Dandrea as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Dandrea can be read two ways at once — as an Italian surname meaning of Andrea, with the apostrophe worn off, or as an American compound with a prefix on the front. Both were happening in the years it appears, and the record holds them together.
How old is the name Dandrea?
Dandrea first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Dandrea alive today was born around 1990, making them about 35 years old. About 200 people named Dandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Dandrea most popular?
Dandrea peaked in 1962, reaching #3640 nationally. See the whole 1962 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Dandrea
The story of Dandrea
Two things about the Andrew family are odd enough to be worth knowing. The first is that two of the apostles have Greek names — Andrew and Philip — in a group of Galilean fishermen whose other names are all Hebrew or Aramaic, and no source explains it. Greek was the trading language of the region and a Greek name in a Jewish family was not impossible, but the Gospels never remark on it. The second is more recent and very American: an Italian liner called the Andrea Doria was struck in fog off Nantucket and went down over eleven hours, with almost everyone aboard taken off in one of the most successful rescues at sea ever managed. The name was in every newspaper in the country for a week, in exactly the years this one begins to appear.
Meaningscholars disagree
Of Andrea — or a prefixed form of the same name
D'Andrea is a common Italian surname: the d' means of, and the name is a patronymic. The same letters can equally be an American build, a prefix attached to a name that was current. The name at the center is the same either way, and it is built on the Greek word for a man.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andrea
- Dandrea
Related forms: D'Andrea · Andreas
Pronouncing Dandrea
dan-DRAY-uh
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Italian says dahn-DREH-ah, and American speakers often flatten the middle vowel.
Nicknames for Dandrea
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
- 1962
- Most boys named
- 199110 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3640reached in 1962
- Change vs 2005
- +40.0%7 in 2006, from 5
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.
Dandrea in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- D'Andrea in Italian — related form
- Andreas in Greek — related form
Dandreas among us
people named Dandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Dandrea sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It contains a complete and very old name that can be used on its own.
- The rhythm is strong and the name is easy to say once seen.
- It works as an Italian family name and as an American coinage at the same time.
- It will be written as D'Andrea, DeAndrea and Deandra by people working from sound.
- Most children with this spelling are girls, but a real minority are boys; either may be taken for the other.
- In Italian the name at its center belongs to men, which occasionally causes a double take.
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Frequently asked
- How many Dandreas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 200 people named Dandrea are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Dandrea in 2025?
- Dandrea is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
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- Dandrea will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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