Andreas

given name · German · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Andreas is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is the 16th most common given name. It appears chiefly in German and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly'.

rarermore common
  • CYCyprus1 in 35◐
  • SESweden1 in 56
  • PLPoland1 in 75

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈2.5M ●

across 15 countries

#156 ●

of 16M given names

7 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
628 ●

12M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 35 ◐

Cyprus

Spellings & scripts●

AndrewLatin · English●11M records
ᲐნდრიაGeorgian · Georgian●50K records
ΑνδρεαςGreek · Greek●39K records
אנדרוHebrew · Hebrew●3.4K records
앤드류Hangul · Korean●6 records
ԱնդրեասArmenian · Armenian●1 records
অযানডরBengali · Bangla●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Andrew in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 8 more, אנדרו in HU Hungary, Andres in EC Ecuador and Ანდრია in GE Georgia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly'

Sources 1

  • Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Andreas is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#161,236,529903K rec.—4Andrew379
DE Germany#61,225,8561.1M rec.—1Andreas352
US United States#471,073,9828.2M rec.1 in 3101.1MAndrew628
AU Australia#11804,410563K rec.—129Andrew382
PL Poland#557513,749△17K rec.1 in 75523KAndreas6
CA Canada#45221,397179K rec.—36Andrew281
SE Sweden#21182,968△33K rec.1 in 56183KAndreas157
BR Brazil—160,908△464 rec.1 in 1.3K176K—9
AT Austria#11151,12140K rec.—26KAndreas202
ES Spain—110,011△24K rec.1 in 455112KAndreas166
HU Hungary—90,385△99 rec.1 in 10890Kאנדרו5
CZ Czechia—82,302△13 rec.1 in 13082K—7

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • German1.4M66%
  • English129K6%
  • Danish107K5%
  • Norwegian Bokmål82K4%
  • Western Frisian49K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
German1,439,91466%
English129,2496%
Danish106,6655%
Norwegian Bokmål81,5614%
Western Frisian49,4782%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Andreas is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Italian given name78K records spelled Andreas53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Brazil, Spain

    Languages: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Andrea, Andréas, Andréa, Andrea'S, Andrèa

  • Finnish given name47K records spelled Andreas11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Switzerland

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Andreasz, Andréas, Andreász, Andreás, Andrèas

  • Indonesian given name39K records spelled Andreas10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Switzerland, Malaysia

    Also written 'Andreas, Andréas, Andreás, Andrea'S, Andreaş

  • Polish given name30K records spelled Andreas25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Croatia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Андреас, Andreaš, Andréas, Andreáš, Andreás

  • a separate given name18K records spelled Andreas3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway

    Also written Andréas, Andrëas

  • a separate given name6.8K records spelled Andreas9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, United States, Switzerland

    Also written Andréas, Andreàs, Åndréas, Äñdrëäs, Ändrëaš

  • Swahili given name3.5K records spelled Andreas3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in South Africa, United States, Sweden, Tanzania

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Andréas

  • Russian given name3.3K records spelled Andreas10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Ukraine, Switzerland

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Андреас, Андрэас, Andréas

86 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Andreas is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A male given name from Ancient Greek from the Latin form of Andrew.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Andrew (biblical figure)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, Patronym zu Andreas; die Karte zeigt die Stellung von r in Patronymen und belegt Varianten mit -rs-, -rds-, -ndr-, -ndr- sowie nordische -sson/-sen-Formen.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus

  • In German, Patronymisch zu Rufname Andreas; Grundform der Drews/Drees- und Drebes-Reihen.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In German, männl. Vom. griechischen Ur­ sprungs, verselbstständigte Kurzform von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

0100200300192019401960198020002020221 · 2006

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Andreas in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1913–2025
Yearrecords
19136
19145
19157
19167
19178
19188
19207
19227
192411
19258
19286
19325
19335
19389
19397
19406
19435
19476
19488
19497
195014
19515
195211
195313
195411
195514
195610
195720
195824
195928
196035
196138
196247
196371
196482
196569
1966101
196782
196863
196983
197086
197186
197279
197381
197473
197576
197669
197772
197856
197982
1980103
198199
198289
198395
198492
198594
1986111
1987131
1988118
1989139
1990131
1991130
1992134
1993142
1994145
1995153
1996145
1997158
1998160
1999169
2000159
2001164
2002147
2003211
2004171
2005206
2006221
2007203
2008206
2009171
2010180
2011151
2012151
2013131
2014132
2015143
2016165
2017151
2018139
2019171
2020163
2021159
2022155
2023174
2024195
2025154

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 96 years between 1913–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Andreas Vesalius, b. 1514Andrew Fielding Huxley, b. 1917Andreas Papandreou, b. 1919Reinhold Messner, b. 1944Niki Lauda, b. 1949Andreas Köpke, b. 1962Andreas Möller, b. 1967Mark van Bommel, b. 1977Andreas Ivanschitz, b. 1983Andreas Christensen, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 106 sources across 51 countries.

Official registers attesting Andreas
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—82K#5
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—75K#42
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202044K—
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)202426K#84
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)202521K—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—20K#34
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—14K#287
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202012K#2,201
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—9.6K#415
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5.8K—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.3K#575
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.8K#11,302

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 961 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Andreas?
We estimate roughly 2.5 million people bear Andreas (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Andreas have the most bearers?
Andreas is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled andrew.
Where is Andreas most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Andreas is densest in Cyprus — about 1 in 35 people — even though United Kingdom holds more of our records for it.
How common is Andreas compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Andreas is the 16th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Andreas a male or female name?
Andreas is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
What does the name Andreas mean?
Recorded meaning: from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly'
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Andreas” — the 16th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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