Andrei

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Andre in BR Brazil, FR France, US United States and 6 more, Andres in AR Argentina, CO Colombia, ES Spain and 6 more, Андрей in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye and 2 more and Андрій in UA Ukraine.

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●

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Andrei is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Romanian given name105K records spelled Andrei3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, United States, United Kingdom, Italy

• Spanish given name85K records spelled Andrei7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Spain, Philippines, Mexico, Russia

  Also written Andreí, Andréi, Andre-I, Andreï, Andre-Í

• Estonian given name46K records spelled Andrei5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Estonia, Finland, United States, Russia

  Languages: Estonian, Finnish

  Also written Andreĭ, Andreï

• Lithuanian given name42K records spelled Andrei4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia, Romania

  Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

  Also written Andreï, Andrėĭ

• French given name28K records spelled Andrei5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Russia, Belgium, Romania

  Also written Andreï, Andréi, Andréï, Andre-I

• a separate given name6.7K records spelled Andrei11 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, United States, Romania, Ukraine

  Also written Andreĭ, Andréi, Andrêi, Andrėĭ, Andreí

• Hindi given name6.0K records spelled Andrei5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Romania, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Andrêi, Andréi, Andreï, Andreĭ

64 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●

Andrei 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 Swedish, Andrei och Andrej är rumänska och slaviska former av → Andreas.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Italian, var. regional set. de Andrea

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In German, Latinisierte Patronym-/Genitivform zu Andreas; eher fremder Familienname, analog zu anderen latinisierenden Formen. Morphemmuster: lat. Genitiv/-ae, mit Kurz- und Analogiebildungen. Belegt mit 70 Trägern.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

• In German, Form zu Andreas; Variante mit -i/-y als Schreibung. 70 Träger.

  as a name·Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

• Russian form of ANDREW . St Andrew is the patron saint of Russia as well as of Greece and Scotland.

  as a word

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●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 76 years between 1948–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Andrei Rublevb. 1360RUmedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
• Andrei Markovb. 1856RURussian mathematician
• Andrei Zhdanovb. 1896UASoviet politician (1896-1948)
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorovb. 1903RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1903–1987)
• Andrei Andreyevich Gromykob. 1909BYSoviet diplomat
• Andrei Sakharovb. 1921RUSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
• Andrei Tarkovskyb. 1932RUSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
• Andrei Karlovb. 1954RUSoviet and Russian diplomat
• Andre Geimb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRussian-born Dutch-British physicist
• Andrei Arshavinb. 1981RURussian association football player

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 738 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Andrei?

We estimate roughly 3.3 million people bear Andrei (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Andrei have the most bearers?

Andrei is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled андрей.

How common is Andrei compared with other names?

In Russia, Andrei is the 12th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Andrei a male or female name?

Andrei is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Andrei mean?

Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.