Andrew
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Meaning
manly, brave
Goes by Andy, Drew. See all nicknames
Andrew's name day is September 20, the feast of Saint Andrew Kim Taegon in the Roman calendar of saints.
The story
Andrew is the English form of Greek Andreas, associated with the word for “man” and the adjective “manly.” The apostle made it a lasting Christian name. In John’s Gospel, Andrew is among the first people to follow Jesus after hearing John the Baptist, and he brings his brother Simon Peter to meet him. Matthew gives a different call scene, with the brothers casting a fishing net on the Sea of Galilee. In John’s later account of the hungry crowd, Andrew notices the boy with barley loaves and fish, then wonders how such a small amount could feed everyone.
Saint Andrew became Scotland’s patron, and the Scottish flag bears the white diagonal cross traditionally associated with his death. His patronage also had a political role. The Declaration of Arbroath in 1320 invokes Andrew, Peter’s brother, while asking the pope to recognize Scotland’s position in its struggle for independence. The saint belonged to the country’s public argument about its future as well as its religious life.
The name was familiar across the medieval Christian world in different forms. French and Portuguese use André, Spanish uses Andrés, and Italian Andrea is conventionally a masculine name. English has the familiar forms Andy and Drew.
American presidents added consequential, difficult associations. Andrew Jackson supported the Indian Removal Act of 1830, helping drive Native nations from their southeastern homelands. Andrew Johnson succeeded Lincoln in 1865 and fought with Congress over Reconstruction, the country’s rebuilding after the Civil War. Johnson became the first United States president impeached, formally charged by the House of Representatives, and the Senate acquitted him.
Andrew across languages
One shared root links 9 names across 6 languages.
Shared root: from Greek Andreas, related to "man" and "manly"; the apostle’s name has related forms across languages
The constellation
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How popular is Andrew around the world?
In the United States, 31,009 babies were named Andrew between 2020 and 2025.
Andrew is on the official records of the United States, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, South Australia, New Zealand, England and Wales, Chile, Montevideo, France, Mexico City, Brazil, Spain, Argentina and Austria.
Andrew crosses languages: it is in the latest top 300 of an English-speaking birth record and of a Spanish-speaking one. The full list: English and Spanish
United States
1 in 700
In the United States, 31,009 babies were named Andrew between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Andrew peaked in the 1980s and the 1990s in nearly equal measure. Andrew went to 10,157 US babies in 2015 and 4,503 in 2025, 44% of the earlier figure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Scotland
1 in 930
In Scotland, 49 boys named Andrew were registered in 2024, the 104th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Ireland
1 in 1,000
In Ireland, 53 boys named Andrew were born in 2025, the 106th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Canada
1 in 1,400
In Canada, 270 boys named Andrew were born in 2024, the 114th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
South Australia
1 in 1,5002017
In South Australia, 12 boys were registered as Andrew in 2017.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
New Zealand
1 in 4,400
In New Zealand, 13 boys named Andrew were registered in 2025.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from New Zealand birth registrations, grouped by registration year; any name under 10 in a year is excluded at source. Shares divide by Stats NZ’s count of births registered to mothers living in New Zealand, under 1% below the registry’s own count. Source: Department of Internal Affairs (New Zealand), baby name popularity over time
England and Wales
1 in 4,600
In England and Wales, 127 boys named Andrew were born in 2025, the 334th most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Chile
1 in 5,400
In Chile, 33 boys were registered as Andrew in 2021, every accent spelling counted together.
share of that year’s name registrations
First-name registrations with Chile’s civil registry by year of registration, 1920–2021, counted as spelling groups (Sofía, Sofia and Sofìa are one name, shown with its most-registered spelling); the registry withholds nothing, nametree keeps the groups that reached 5 registrations in some year, and shares divide by every registration of the year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil e Identificación (Chile) via the guaguas package, first-name registrations 1920-2021
Montevideo City
1 in 6,2002011
In Montevideo, 4 boys named Andrew were born in 2011, spelling variants counted together.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in the department of Montevideo (not all of Uruguay) by first name and year of birth, 1940–2011, from the city’s civil registry, which writes names in capitals, almost always without accents; counted as spelling groups (accent and punctuation variants merged), nothing is withheld at source, and 2012 is excluded as a partial year. Source: Servicio de Registro Civil, Intendencia de Montevideo, Partidas de Registro Civil de Montevideo (Licencia de Datos Abiertos - Uruguay); 2012 dropped as partial
France
1 in 9,900
In France, about 65 boys named Andrew were born in 2025, the 661st most common name among boys that year.
share of that year’s births on record
Births in France by year of birth, from INSEE’s fichier des prénoms (1900–2025; Mayotte from 2012); exact spellings count separately (Léo and Leo are different names), any spelling under 3 in a year and sex is withheld at source, every count is rounded to the nearest 5 at source, and nametree keeps the spellings that reached 20 in some year. Shares divide by INSEE’s count of births in France from 1957, and before that by the file’s own total for the year; INSEE says the file is not complete before 1946. Source: Insee, fichier des prénoms (last updated 2026-07-16)
Mexico City City
1 in 12,000
In Mexico City, there were 10 registrations of Andrew in 2022.
share of that year’s registrations in the city
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Brazil
1 in 14,000
At the 2022 census, 13,923 people in Brazil were named Andrew, ranked 1,358th, with a median age of 17.
Among people named Andrew living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 2000s than in any other decade.
people alive at the 2022 census, by decade of birth
The census also counted 1,387 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart. People alive and resident in Brazil at the 2022 census, a living-population count, not births; names under 20 are withheld at source. Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
Spain
1 in 35,000
In Spain, 1,271 residents are named Andrew, ranked 1,156th among men, with a mean age of 37.9 years.
Residents of Spain on 1 January 2025. Spain publishes how old a name’s living bearers are, not a birth series, so there is no year chart. Source: INE (Spain), Censo de Población anual, 1 January 2025
Argentina
1 in 74,000
In Argentina, 9 newborns were given the name Andrew in 2024.
share of that year’s name registrations
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Austria
1 in 76,000
In Austria, 1 boy named Andrew was born in 2025, ranked 1,842nd among boys that year, spellings that differ only by special characters counted together.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
New South Wales
outside the top 100
Andrew is not in the 2025 top 100 for New South Wales.
share of that year’s top-100 registrations
New South Wales (not all of Australia) publishes only each year’s 100 most popular names per sex, so a missing year means below that top 100, not rare. Source: NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, popular baby names
Norway
last on record 2021
Andrew is not on the 2025 record for Norway, where names carried by fewer than 4 people in a year are withheld at source.
share of the boys on the register for that year, SSB’s own figure
People who have or have had a Norwegian ID number, emigrants left out, from Statistics Norway’s name statistics (release of January 2026): by year of birth for 1945–2020 (everyone born that year who was ever registered in Norway, including people who registered later and people who have since died) and by year of naming from 2021; only first names carried by 200 or more living people are listed, counts under 4 are withheld, and SSB merges spellings that differ only by letters outside the Norwegian alphabet. The shares are SSB’s own, of the people of that sex and year in that count; the 2025 figure counts the children named that year, and no year is a count of births. Source: Statistics Norway (SSB), table 10467 (updated 2026-01-28)
Poland
last on record 2024
Andrew is not on the 2025 record for Poland, where names given fewer than 2 times in a year are withheld at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
First names given to children born in Poland by year of birth, 2000–2025, from the PESEL population register (Ministry of Digital Affairs); exact spellings count separately (Łukasz and Lukasz are different names), names given fewer than 5 times in a year were left off the list through 2012 and fewer than 2 times from 2013, and the register also counts children born abroad, so its yearly sums run above Poland’s live births. Shares divide by the register’s own published total for the year, never by births. Source: Ministry of Digital Affairs, PESEL register (dane.gov.pl)
Puerto Rico
last on record 2024
Andrew is not on the 2025 record for Puerto Rico, which withholds births under 5, and 383 babies have carried the name there since 1998.
share of that year’s births on record
First given name only, from Social Security records of births in Puerto Rico; any name-sex-year under 5 births is withheld at source. Shares divide by the Puerto Rico Demographic Registry’s count of births on the island; the 2025 count is provisional. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, territory name file (Puerto Rico)
When you meet Andrew
Most people given the name Andrew in the United States were born between 1970 and 2009. The Andrew you meet today is most often in his 20s or 30s.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
Where Andrew travels
Arab American · manly, brave (a common English name chosen by Arab Christian American families)
Korean American · Andrew is the English form, related to Spanish Andrés and Portuguese André.
Chinese American · a dignified choice across generations of Chinese American families
Keep exploring
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