Andrey

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 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●

Attested across 23 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◐

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

• English given name106K records spelled Andrey21 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Russia, Germany

  Languages: English, German, Norwegian Bokmål

  Also written Ândrey, Ändrëÿ, Andrèy, Andréy, Ändrey

• Turkish given name4.1K records spelled Andrey6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Kazakhstan

  Languages: Turkish, Turkmen, Uzbek

  Also written Ändrëy, Andrèy

• English given name1.7K records spelled Andrey112 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Laos, Brazil, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Lao, Thai

  Also written Andria, Andrea, Antria, แอนเดรีย, Adria

61 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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 71 years between 1950–2025. 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. 1360RUnot in their usual namemedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
• Andrei Markovb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician
• Andrei Zhdanovb. 1896UAnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1896-1948)
• Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorovb. 1903RURussian mathematician (1903–1987)
• 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)
• Andrei Karlovb. 1954RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian diplomat
• Andre Geimb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRussian-born Dutch-British physicist
• 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 461 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Andrey?

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

In which country does Andrey have the most bearers?

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

How common is Andrey compared with other names?

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

Is Andrey a male or female name?

Andrey 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 Andrey mean?

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