Andrew Explained

Andrew
Gender:	Male
Meaning:	manly, strong and brave
Name Day:	November 30
Region:	Greece
Language origin:	Greek
Related Names:	Ander, Andros, Anders, Anderson, Andy, André, Andrei, Andreu, Andris, Andrius, Andrejs, Andrzej, Jędrzej, Andriy, Andrea, Andreas, Andrés, Drew, Ondřej, Ondrej

Andrew is the English form of the given name, common in many countries. The word is derived from the Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἀνδρέας, Andreas,^[1] itself related to Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.^[2]

Etymology

The word is derived from the Greek, Modern (1453-);: Ἀνδρέας, Andreas,^[1] itself related to Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman or girl"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.^[2]

Popularity

In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries.^[3]

Australia

In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia after James.^[4] In 1999, it was the 19th most common name,^[5] while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name.^[6] Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing.^[7] In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.^[8]

Canada

Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005.^[9] Andrew was the 16th most popular name for infants in British Columbia in 2004,^[10] the 17th most popular name in 2003,^[11] and the 19th most popular name in 2002.^[12] In 2001, it was the 18th most common name.^[13] From 1999 to 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.^[14]

Europe

In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth-most common name given to baby boys, and it was third in 1964. In Scotland, Andrew was the most popular name given to baby boys in 1993, with 1,099 boys given the name that year.^[15]

In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second-most common name given to boys of the 1990s.^[16]

Year	England & Wales	Ireland	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Norway	Poland
2007	99th^[17]					19th
2006	97th^[18]				6th^[19]
2005	86th^[20]	39th^[21]		16th^[22]	8th
2004	80th^[23]	32nd^[24]		16th^[25]	4th
2003	74th^[26]	36th^[27]		17th^[28]	4th
2002	63rd^[29]	41st^[30]		17th^[31]	5th
2001	56th^[32]	37th^[33]		7th^[34]	4th
2000	53rd^[35]	31st^[36]		6th^[37]	7th
1999	46th^[38]	28th^[39]		7th^[40]	4th
1998	40th^[41]	23rd^[42]		8th^[43]	5th
1997					1st	10th
1996					3rd
1995			6th^[44]		2nd

United States

The eleventh most common baby name in 2006,^[45] Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005.^[46] Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004.^[47] In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States.^{[48] [49] [50]} In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular choice of baby name in the United States.^[51] In the 1970s it was the 31st most popular name.^[52] From the 1960s stretching back at least as far as the 1880s, Andrew was not among the forty most popular names in the United States.^{[53] [54] [55] [56] [57] [58] [59] [60] [61]}

Variants by language

• Anaru: Māori, masculine
• Andria: Georgian, masculine
• Aindrea, Aindreas, Anndra: Scottish Gaelic, masculine
• Aindréas, Aindréis, Aindriú: Irish, masculine
• Anaru: Maori, masculine
• Andra: Indonesian, Scots, masculine
• Ander: Basque, masculine
• Änder: Luxembourgish
• Anders: Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish
• Andrìa: Sardinian
• Andy: Indonesian, Polynesian
• Andras: Welsh
• András, Endre: Hungarian, masculine
• Andraž: Slovene, masculine
• André: French, English, Latin, Catalan, Luxembourgish, Dutch, Estonian, Romanian, German, Canadian, Hungarian, Danish, Swedish, Corsican, Icelandic, Czech, Slovak, Slovenian, Polish and Portuguese, masculine
• Andrea: Albanian, Italian, Latin, masculine; Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian (only recently), Macedonian, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, feminine
• Andréa: French, Portuguese
• Andréanne: French, feminine
• Andréane: French
• Andréana: Malgasy
• Andreas: Armenian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh, masculine
• Andros: Greek, masculine
• Andreu: Catalan, masculine
• Andreea: Romanian, feminine
• Andrée: French, feminine
  • Marie-Andrée, Anne-Andrée, Andrée-Anne, Andrée-Marie, French, feminine
• Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans, masculine
• Andrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Belarusian, Russian, masculine
• Andréia: Portuguese, feminine
• Andreina: Italian, feminine
• Andris, Andrejs, Andis: Latvian, masculine
• Andrej: Belarusian, Croatian, Macedonian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, masculine
• Andrey: Russian and Bulgarian, masculine (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrei for both)
• Andreja: Macedonian, masculine; Croatian, Slovene, feminine
• Andres: Estonian, masculine
• Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish, masculine
• Andressa: Portuguese, feminine
• Andreu: Catalan, masculine
• Andreus: Latin, masculine
• Andrew: English, Indonesian, masculine
• Andrėja: Lithuanian, feminine
• Andrėjus: Lithuanian, Masculine
• Georgian: ანდრი, : Georgian, masculine
• Andri: Icelandic and romansh, masculine
• Georgian: ანდრია, : Georgian, masculine
• Andric: English, masculine
• Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans, masculine
• Andrii: Ukrainian, masculine
• Andrija: Croatian and Serbian, masculine
• Andrijana: Macedonian, Serbian, feminine
• Andis, Andris, Andrejs, Anžejs or Andžejs: Latvian, masculine
• Andrius: Lithuanian, masculine
• Andriy: Ukrainian, masculine
• Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish, masculine
• Andrzeja: Polish, feminine; obsolete
• Aneterea: Samoan, masculine
• Anintelu: Tongan, masculine
• Antero: Finnish, masculine
• Antti: Finnish, masculine
• Ondřej: Czech, masculine
• Ondrej or Andrej: Slovak, masculine
• Andrij: Ukrainian, masculine
• Indrì or Andrija: Maltese, masculine
• Andis, Andijs or Endijs: Latvian, masculine
• Andi: Albanian, masculine
• Malayalam: അന്ത്രയോസ്: Malayalam, masculine
• Telugu: ఆంద్రేయ: Telugu, masculine
• Korean: 앤드루: Korean, masculine
• Japanese: アンドリュウ: Japanese, masculine
• Chinese: 安德鲁: Mandarin Chinese (simplified), masculine
• Chinese: 安德魯: Mandarin Chinese (traditional), masculine
• Arabic: أندراوس, : Arabic, masculine (or Arabic: أندريه, from French, or Arabic: أندرو, from English)
• Amharic: እንድሪያስ: Amharic, masculine
• اندرآي (Romanized: Andrai): Ziyadi, masculine

Surname

• • Anderson Andrews

People named Andrew

• List of people with given name Andrew
• Andrew (surname), including a list of people with surname Andrew
• Andy, informal

See also

• • • • Andy (given name)
• Andre (disambiguation)
• Andrea
• Andreas
• Andreou
• Andrey
• Andrew (surname)
• Anderson (surname)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Online Etymology Dictionary . 2 December 2011.
2. Web site: Bible Concordance: Andrew . 2 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121008063719/http://concordances.org/a/andrew.htm . 8 October 2012.
3. Web site: BabyCenter 1990s – Most Popular Names . 2007-04-13 . 2007-04-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070427125842/http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names90.html . dead .
4. Web site: Popular names, 1990s . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061005221933/http://www.babynames.com.au/Search/search-categories-popular-list.asp?Year=1990&Gender=Boys . October 5, 2006.
5. Web site: Popular names, 1980s . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060927173454/http://www.babynames.com.au/Search/search-categories-popular-list.asp?Year=1980&Gender=Boys . September 27, 2006.
6. Web site: Popular names, 1970s . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20061005221515/http://www.babynames.com.au/Search/search-categories-popular-list.asp?Year=1970&Gender=Boys . October 5, 2006.
7. Web site: Births, Deaths & Marriages (Most Popular Names) – Northern Territory Department of Justice – Australia . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070312155853/http://www.nt.gov.au/justice/graphpages/bdm/popnames.shtml . March 12, 2007.
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16. Web site: Popular boy baby names 1990–1999.
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22. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (2005).
23. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in England and Wales (2004).
24. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (2004).
25. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (2004).
26. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in England and Wales (2003).
27. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (2003).
28. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (2003).
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32. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in England and Wales (2001).
33. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (2001).
34. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (2001).
35. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in England and Wales (2000).
36. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (2000).
37. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (2000).
38. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in England and Wales (1999).
39. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (1999).
40. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (1999).
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42. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Ireland (1998).
43. Web site: Top 100 Baby Names for Boys in Scotland (1998).
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47. Web site: Emily, Jacob remain popular baby names . Canada.com.
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49. Web site: Top 10 names of 2002 in USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930105501/http://www.popularbabynames.com/cgi-bin/show_page.pl?fpage=a_02_babynames . 2007-09-30.
50. Web site: Top 10 names of 2001 in USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070930105514/http://www.popularbabynames.com/cgi-bin/show_page.pl?fpage=a_01_babynames . 2007-09-30.
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52. Web site: BabyCenter 1970s – Most Popular Names . 2007-04-13 . 2007-04-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070409195731/http://www.babycenter.com/babyname/names70.html . dead .
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