Andrzej

given name · Polish · Latin script

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

Andrzej is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 12th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Polish and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, 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 · Russian21M records
AndreLatin · Portuguese9.2M records
ᲐნდრეიGeorgian · Georgian2.3K records
อินเดริสThai · Thai83 records
안드레Hangul · Korean15 records
ԱնդրեյArmenian · Armenian10 records
ΑντρέιGreek · Greek4 records
אנדרעHebrew · Yiddish0 records

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, equivalent to English Andrew

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Andrzej 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#6513,749110K 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

  • Polish2.9M97%
  • English33K1%
  • German11K1%
  • French5.3K1%
  • Finnish5.3K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Polish2,915,24897%
English32,9161%
German11,0901%
French5,2851%
Finnish5,2531%

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

Andrzej is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name17K records spelled Andrzej7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Åñdržëj

  • German given name13K records spelled Andrzej2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Austria, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Andrzéj

  • a separate given name3.7K records spelled Andrzej2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Zimbabwe, Canada

    Also written Andrzéj

  • Croatian given name452 records spelled Andrzej16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, United Kingdom, Spain

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Andžej, Andzej, Анджеј

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

Andrzej is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Andrzej är en polsk form av → Andreas. En känd namnbärare är den polske filmregissören Andrzej Wajda (1926–2016).

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In Polish, Andrew

    as a namePolish Personal Names (CIA Foreign Names Studies, ch. 24)

  • Polish form of ANDREW . St Andrzej Bobola was a Polish Jesuit murdered by Cossacks at Janów in 1657.

    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

0204060801950196019701980199076 · 1972

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Andrzej in SSB — Navn (1880–present), Norway, 1947–1995
Yearrecords
19474
19496
19509
195110
195211
19537
195416
195526
195631
195746
195854
195943
196055
196164
196250
196352
196459
196547
196667
196767
196865
196965
197068
197174
197276
197366
197455
197562
197664
197753
197844
197962
198054
198150
198231
198332
198431
198526
198629
198715
198821
198914
199011
19915
19927
19934
19954

NO SSB — Navn (1880–present)47 years between 1947–1995. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name

1400160018002000Casimir IV Jagiellon, b. 1427Tadeusz Kościuszko, b. 1746Andrzej Wajda, b. 1926Andrew Schally, b. 1926Andrzej Żuławski, b. 1940Andrzej Seweryn, b. 1946Andrzej Sapkowski, b. 1948Andrzej Grabowski, b. 1952Andrzej Sekuła, b. 1954Andrzej Duda, b. 1972

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 52 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Andrzej
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)523K#4
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026514K#4
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.6K#3,632
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)5K#643
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)2.6K#928
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)2.5K#935
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20151.9K
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20141.9K
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20161.9K
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20171.8K
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20191.8K
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)20211.8K

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 · 333 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

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

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