Andries

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 21 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◐

Andries is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Dutch given name37K records spelled Andries3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Netherlands, South Africa, United States, Belgium

  Also written Andriès

• French given name7.1K records spelled Andries6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, France, Netherlands, Belgium

  Also written Andriès, Andriés, Andrieș, Andrieş

• Indonesian given name4.5K records spelled Andries5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Indonesia, Netherlands, Romania

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written Andrieș, Andrieś, Andrieş

• Portuguese given name4.5K records spelled Andries12 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Brazil, Netherlands, United States

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Andrieș, Andriès, Andrieş, Andriés, Andríes

• a separate given name788 records spelled Andries5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, South Africa, India

  Also written Andrieș, Andrieş, Andriès, Andrieš

• Arabic given name544 records spelled Andries3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in South Africa, Netherlands, Egypt, United States

  Also written Andrieş

43 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●

Andries 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.

• Low German and Dutch form of ANDREW . St Andries Wouters (d. 1572) was a Catholic hanged by Calvinists at Gorkum. Short form: Dries .

  as a word

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

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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●

FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 11 years between 1891–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Andries Bickerb. 1586NLLord of Engelenburg, member of Amsterdam regency, representative of the States-General of the Netherlands and board member VOC (1586-1652)
• Andries van Eertveltb. 1590BEFlemish painter (1590-1652)
• Andries Dirksz. Bothb. 1612NLDutch painter (c.1612–1642)
• Hendrik Potgieterb. 1792ZAnot in their usual nameVoortrekker and South African politician (1792-1852)
• Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretoriusb. 1798ZASouth African politician (1798–1853)
• Felix Vening Meineszb. 1887NLnot in their usual nameDutch geophysicist (1887-1966)
• Albert de Jongb. 1891NLnot in their usual nameDutch editor and anarchist (1891–1970)
• Andries van Damb. 1938NLDutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University (born 1938)
• Andries Jonkerb. 1962NLDutch football manager
• Andries Noppertb. 1994NLDutch association football player (born 1994)

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 · 85 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Andries?

We estimate roughly 18 thousand people bear Andries (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.

In which country does Andries have the most bearers?

Andries is most frequently recorded in South Africa, where it is most often spelled andries.

Where is Andries most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Andries is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 1.0 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.

How common is Andries compared with other names?

In South Africa, Andries is the 52nd most common given name of 215,346 given names recorded there.

Is Andries a male or female name?

Andries 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 Andries mean?

Recorded meaning: a male given name; an alternative form of Andreas