Andrej

given name · Russian · Latin script

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

Andrej is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew.

rarermore common
  • RORomania1 in 36◐
  • BYBelarus1 in 45
  • RURussia1 in 52

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

≈3.3M ●

across 12 countries

#16 ●

of 16M given names

8 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
493 ●

23M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 47 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

АндрейCyrillic · Russian●21M records
AndreLatin · Portuguese●9.2M records
ᲐნდრეიGeorgian · Georgian●2.3K records
อินเดริสThai · Thai●83 records
안드레Hangul · Korean●15 records
ԱնդրեյArmenian · Armenian●10 records
ΑντρέιGreek · Greek●4 records
אנדרעHebrew · Yiddish●0 records

7 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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 Andrei in RO Romania, NO Norway.

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●

a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Andrej is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#1219,871,0357.8M rec.—#10Андрей268
UA Ukraine#185,488,6775.4M rec.—listedАндрій148
AR Argentina#283,710,9841.8M rec.—4.9KAndres194
CO Colombia#31,107,213353K rec.—198Andres251
US United States#1861,073,9822.5M rec.1 in 3101.1MAndre493
RO Romania#11879,3717.9K rec.—289KAndrei122
CL Chile#10775,81564K rec.—259Andres198
MX Mexico#80719,466628K rec.—1.5KAndres246
FR France#9712,365724K rec.1 in 95712KAndre364
VE Venezuela#41569,522265K rec.—1.8KAndres135
BR Brazil#24559,511624K rec.1 in 378584KAndre253
PL Poland#6513,749△110K rec.1 in 75523KAndrzej224

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

Languages●

  • Russian269K60%
  • Hungarian34K8%
  • Croatian30K7%
  • Czech28K6%
  • German25K6%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Russian269,26660%
Hungarian34,0118%
Croatian29,5907%
Czech28,1296%
German24,8656%

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◐

Andrej is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name38K records spelled Andrej9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Andrèj, Andréj

  • Lithuanian given name4.1K records spelled Andrej3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Andrėj

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Andrej4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Slovenia, India

    Also written Andrèj, Andrėj, Andréj

48 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●

Andrej is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, männl. Vom., russische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Czech: ‘learned’ form of ANDREW . See also OND EJ Pet forms: Andrá , Androu ek .

    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●

0510152019701980199020002010202018 · 2011

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Andrej in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1965–2025
Yearrecords
19656
19717
19726
19735
19778
19827
198610
19885
19908
19916
19925
19936
19946
19957
19975
19989
19996
20005
20017
200213
20038
200410
200510
20068
20078
200816
200911
20108
201118
201213
201310
201411
20159
201610
201710
201814
201912
202015
202116
202213
202316
202415
202516

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1965–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

12001400160018002000Andrei Rublev, b. 1360Andrei Markov, b. 1856Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko, b. 1909Andrei Sakharov, b. 1921Andrei Tarkovsky, b. 1932Andrej Babiš, b. 1954Andre Geim, b. 1958Andrej Kiska, b. 1963Andrej Plenković, b. 1970Andrei Arshavin, b. 1981
  • Andrei Rublevb. 1360RUnot in their usual namemedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
  • Andrei Markovb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician
  • Andrei Andreyevich Gromykob. 1909BYnot in their usual nameSoviet diplomat
  • Andrei Sakharovb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
  • Andrei Tarkovskyb. 1932RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
  • Andrej Babišb. 1954SKCzech politician and businessman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
  • Andre Geimb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRussian-born Dutch-British physicist
  • Andrej Kiskab. 1963SK4th President of Slovakia
  • Andrej Plenkovićb. 1970HRPrime Minister of Croatia since 2016
  • Andrei Arshavinb. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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●

Attested in 58 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Andrej
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202516K#4
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—16K#6
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—5.4K#252
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20214.6K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20213.9K#245
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—2.7K#278
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—2.7K#278
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.1K#1,531
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024895#175
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—833#1,934
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020745#15,445
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020559—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name 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 · 483 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Andrej?
We estimate roughly 3.3 million people bear Andrej (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Andrej have the most bearers?
Andrej is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled андрей.
How common is Andrej compared with other names?
In Russia, Andrej is the 12th most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Andrej a male or female name?
Andrej 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 Andrej mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew
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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, “Andrej” — the 12th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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