Andrew
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Pronunciation | /ˈændruː/ |
Gender | Male |
Name day | November 30 |
Origin | |
Word/name | Greek |
Meaning | manly and strong[1][2] |
Region of origin | Greece |
Other names | |
See also | Ander, Anders, Andy, Andre, Andrei, Andrejs, Andrzej, Andriy, Andrea, Andreas, Andrey, Andrej, Andres |
Andrew is the English form of a given name common in many countries. In the 1990s, it was among the top ten most popular names given to boys in English-speaking countries.[3] In Italian, the equivalent to "Andrew" is "Andrea", though "Andrea" is feminine in most other languages. "Andrew" is frequently shortened to "Andy" or "Drew". The word is derived from the Greek: Ανδρέας, Andreas,[4] itself related to Ancient Greek: 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.[5]
Popularity
Australia
In 2000, the name Andrew was the second most popular name in Australia.[6] In 1999, it was the 19th most common name,[7] while in 1940, it was the 31st most common name.[8] Andrew was the first most popular name given to boys in the Northern Territory in 2003 to 2015 and continuing.[9] In Victoria, Andrew was the first most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.[10]
Canada
Andrew was the 20th most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005.[11] Andrew was the 16th most popular name for infants in British Columbia in 2004,[12] the 17th most popular name in 2003,[13] and the 19th most popular name in 2002.[14] In 2001, it was the 18th most common name.[15] From 1999 – 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.[16]
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.[17]
In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second-most common name given to boys of the 1990s.[18]
Year | England & Wales | Ireland | Northern Ireland | Scotland | Norway | Poland |
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2007 | 99th[19] | * | * | * | * | 19th |
2006 | 97th[20] | * | * | * | 6th[21] | * |
2005 | 86th[22] | 39th[23] | * | 16th[24] | 8th | * |
2004 | 80th[25] | 32nd[26] | * | 16th[27] | 4th | * |
2003 | 74th[28] | 36th[29] | * | 17th[30] | 4th | * |
2002 | 63rd[31] | 41st[32] | * | 17th[33] | 5th | * |
2001 | 56th[34] | 37th[35] | * | 7th[36] | 4th | * |
2000 | 53rd[37] | 31st[38] | * | 6th[39] | 7th | * |
1999 | 46th[40] | 28th[41] | * | 7th[42] | 4th | * |
1998 | 40th[43] | 23rd[44] | * | 8th[45] | 5th | * |
1997 | * | * | * | * | 1st | 10th |
1996 | * | * | * | * | 3rd | * |
1995 | * | * | 6th[46] | * | 2nd | * |
United States
The eleventh most common baby name in 2006,[47] Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005.[48] Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004.[49] In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States.[50][51][52] In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular choice of baby name in the United States.[53] In the 1970s it was the 31st most popular name.[54] From the 1960s stretching back at least as far as the 1880s, Andrew was not among the forty most popular names in America.[55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63]
Variants by language
- Andria: Georgian, masculine
- Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra: Scottish Gaelic, masculine
- Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas: Irish Gaelic, masculine
- Anaru: Maori, masculine
- Andra: Scots, masculine
- Ander: Basque, masculine
- Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, masculine
- Andras: Welsh
- András, Endre: Hungarian, masculine
- Andraš: Prekmurje dialect of Slovene, masculine
- Andraž: Slovene, masculine
- André or Andre: French and Portuguese, masculine
- Andrea: Albanian, Italian, masculine; Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Macedonian, Norwegian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, feminine
- Andreas: Armenian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Latin, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh, masculine
- Andreu: Catalan, masculine
- Andreea: Romanian, feminine
- Andrée: French, feminine
- Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans, masculine
- Andrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Belarusian, Russian, masculine
- Andreia: Portuguese, feminine
- Andreina: Italian, feminine
- Andris: Latvian, masculine
- Andrei: Romanian, 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
- Andreo: Spanish, masculine
- Andres: Estonian, masculine
- Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish, masculine
- Andreu: Catalan, masculine
- Andrew: English, masculine
- Andric: English, masculine
- Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans, masculine
- Andri: Icelandic, masculine
- Andrii: Ukrainian, masculine
- Andrija: Croatian and Serbian, masculine
- Andrijana: Macedonian, Serbian, feminine
- Andris or Andrejs: Latvian, masculine
- Andrius: Lithuanian, masculine
- Andriy: Ukrainian, masculine
- Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish, masculine
- Andrzeja: Polish, feminine; obsolete
- Antti: Finnish, masculine
- Ondřej: Czech, masculine
- Ondrej: Slovak, masculine
- Andrij: Ukrainian, masculine
- Indrì or Andrija: Maltese, masculine
- In Albanian: Andrea, Andreu, André, Ndré, Ndreu, Andër, Andërs, masculine
- 안드레아: Korean, masculine
- アンデルー: Japanese, masculine
- 安德鲁: Mandarin Chinese (simplified), masculine
- 安德魯: Mandarin Chinese (traditional), masculine
- أندرو: Arabic, masculine
For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms
Notable people named Andrew
Saint Andrew
In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles.
Other saints named Andrew include:
- Saint Andrew of Trier (d. 235), Bishop of Trier
- Saint Andrew of Crete, an 8th-century archbishop, theologian, homilist, and hymnographer
- Saint Andrew of Crete (martyr)
- Saint Andrew of Constantinople
- Saints Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran, Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen, Andrew Trong Van Tram, and Andrew Tuong of the Vietnamese Martyrs
- Saint Andrew Kim Taegon of the Korean Martyrs
Kings Andrew
- King Andrew I of Hungary
- King Andrew II of Hungary
- King Andrew III of Hungary
Dukes Andrew
- Andrius Algirdaitis (1325–1399), first son of Algirdas
Princes Andrew
- Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960–), second son of Elizabeth II
- Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882–1944), the aforementioned's paternal grandfather and namesake
- Edward VIII (1894–1972) bore the name Andrew
- Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972), grandson of George V, was William Henry Andrew Frederick
United States politics
- Andrew Cuomo (56th Governor of New York)
- Andrew Gillum (125th Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida)
- Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States of America)
- Andrew Johnson (17th President of the United States of America)
Business, culture, science, and sport
- Andrew Abercromby – Scottish biomedical engineer and aquanaut
- Andrew Bayes – American football player
- Andy Biersack – lead vocalist of American rock band Black Veil Brides
- Andrew Bayer – American DJ and Grammy-nominated record producer
- Andrew Bird – American musician
- Andrew Bloom – American Olympic shot putter
- Andrew Bogut – Australian basketball player
- Andrew Brown (American football) – American football player
- Andrew Brunette – ice hockey player
- Andrew Buckley – field hockey player
- Andrew Bynum – basketball player
- Andrew Carnegie – steel magnate and philanthropist
- Andrew Craig - keyboardist for The Nightrain
- Andrew "Dice" Clay – comedian
- Andrew Dost – Guitarist
- Andrew Clayton – freestyle swimmer
- Andrew Cole – footballer
- Andrew Davies – screenwriter
- Andy Dawson (born 1978) – English footballer
- Andy Dawson (born 1979) – English footballer
- Andrew De Silva (born 1974) - Sri Lankan Australian rock vocalist
- Andrew Digby an astronomer and ecologist whose work focusses on researching and conserving New Zealand's endangered endemic birds.
- Andrew J. Feustel – American astronaut
- Andrew Flintoff – cricketer
- Andrew Rube Foster – Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
- Andrew Friedman - American, baseball general manager
- Andrew Garfield – actor
- Andrew Gaze – basketball player
- Andy Gibb (Andrew Roy Gibb) – pop singer and composer
- Andrew Graham-Dixon – art historian and broadcaster
- Andy Griffith – actor/singer/comedian
- Andrew Grove - businessman/engineer/author and a science pioneer
- Andrew Hastie – field hockey player
- Andrew Hussie - artist at MSPAINTADVENTURES
- Andrew Huxley – physiologist
- Andrew Jacobs – New York Times journalist, and documentary film director and producer
- Andrew Jacobson - Major League Soccer player
- Andrew Jayamanne - Sri Lankan film director
- Andrew Johns – rugby league player
- Andrew Johnson – footballer
- Andrew Johnston – actor
- Andy Kaufman – comedian
- Andrew Knott – English actor
- Andrew Ladd – ice hockey player
- Andrew Laine - American engineer
- Andrew Lang – man of letters
- Andrew Lee Potts – actor/director
- Andrej Lemanis – Australian basketball coach
- Andrew Lincoln – British actor
- Andrew Lloyd Webber – composer and impresario
- Andrew Lorraine – American baseball player
- Andrew Luck – American football player
- Andrej Mangold – German basketball player
- Andrew Marr – broadcaster
- Andrew Marvell – poet
- Andrew McCullough – Australian Rugby League player
- Andrew McCutchen – American baseball player
- Andrew Mehrtens – rugby union player
- Andrew Mellon – American businessman, philanthropist and politician
- Andrew Micallef – Maltese painter and musician
- Andrew Murray – tennis player
- Andrew Neil – political journalist and broadcaster
- Andrew O'Keefe, Australian TV personality
- Andrew Provence – American football player
- Andrew Raycroft – ice hockey player
- Andy Richter – actor/writer/comedian
- Andrew Ridgeley – English musician, George Michael's partner in Wham!
- Andrew Robinson – water polo player
- Andrew Sabiston, Canadian voice actor
- Andrew Sachs – character actor
- Andrew Sega – American musician
- Andrew "Andy" Shernoff – songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The Dictators
- Andrew Shue – American actor
- Andrew Stahl – television and film actor
- Andrew Stanton – "Pixar" producer, director, voice actor, and screenwriter
- Andrew Stevovich - American visual artist
- Andrew Stockdale – guitarist and singer of Wolfmother
- Andrew Symonds – cricketer
- Andrew Sznajder (born 1967) - English-born Canadian tennis player
- Andrew Tanenbaum – computer scientist
- Andrew Timlin – field hockey player
- Andrew Toney – basketball player
- Andy Van Slyke – baseball player
- Andrew VanWyngarden – musician
- Andrew Vollert (born 1995) – American football player
- Andrew W.K. – American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker
- Andrew Wade – American sound engineer and producer
- Andrew Wagner – American film director
- Andrew Walter – American football player
- Andy Warhol – American pop artist
- Andrew Wiles – British mathematician, proved Fermat's Last Theorem
- Andrew Wiggins – Canadian basketball player
- Andrew Wood – singer for grunge band Mother Love Bone
- Andrew Wyeth – American visual artist
Religion
- Andrew Kumarage - 3rd Anglican Bishop of Kurunegala
In fiction
- Andrew, angel of death from Touched by an Angel
- Andrew, robot from Isaac Asimov's 1976 novella The Bicentennial Man and its 1999 film adaptation
- Andy Botwin from the TV series Weeds
- Andy Bernard from the TV series The Office
- Andy Davis, character from Disney Pixar's Toy Story and its sequels
- Andy Dufresne, from the Stephen King novel Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption and the film adaption The Shawshank Redemption
- Andrew Ryan from the video game BioShock
- Drew Torres, from Degrassi: The Next Generation
- Andrew Wiggin aka Ender Wiggin, the title character from Orson Scott Card's famous science fiction novel Ender's Game
- Andrei Nikolayevich Bolkonsky, central character in Leo Tolstoy's novel War and Peace
- Andy Dwyer, a character from the TV series Parks and Recreation
- Andrew Fillier, a character in the film Cyberbully
- Andrew Hanbridge, a character in the anime series Little Witch Academia
See also
- All pages beginning with Andrew
- All pages beginning with Andy
- All pages beginning with Drew
- Andy (given name)
- Andre (disambiguation)
- Andrea
- Andreas
- Andreou
- Andrey
- Andrew (surname)
References
- ↑ "Online Etymology Dictionary". etymonline.com.
- ↑ Mike Campbell. "Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Andrew". Behind the Name.
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1990s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "Online Etymology Dictionary". Retrieved 2 December 2011.
- ↑ "Bible Concordance: Andrew". Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 2 December 2011.
- ↑ "Popular names, 1990s". Archived from the original on October 5, 2006.
- ↑ "Popular names, 1980s". Archived from the original on September 27, 2006.
- ↑ "Popular names, 1970s". Archived from the original on October 5, 2006.
- ↑ "Births, Deaths & Marriages (Most Popular Names) – Northern Territory Department of Justice – Australia". Archived from the original on March 12, 2007.
- ↑ "Most Popular Boys Baby Names in Australia".
- ↑ "Top 100 Baby Names in Canada". Today's Parent. Archived from the original on 2007-09-04.
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- ↑ "BabyCenter 1960s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1950s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1940s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1930s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1920s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1910s – Most Popular Names".
- ↑ "BabyCenter 1900s – Most Popular Names".
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