Andreas
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in German: Andrew (biblical figure)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/anˈdʁeːas/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Andreas is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 47th most common given name.
- DEGermany≈1 in 97(inferred from the name graph)
- ATAustria≈1 in 118
- NONorway1 in 256
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Andreas itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #81 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 695 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97 (inferred from the name graph)
1,075,513 named Andrew, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Andrew in US United States, GB United Kingdom, NG Nigeria and אנדרס in HU Hungary.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Andreas is read(measured from records)
Andreas is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- German77%
Andrew (biblical figure)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Patronym zu Andreas; die Karte zeigt die Stellung von r in Patronymen und belegt Varianten mit -rs-, -rds-, -ndr-, -ndr- sowie nordische -sson/-sen-Formen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Patronymisch zu Rufname Andreas; Grundform der Drews/Drees- und Drebes-Reihen.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
männl. Vom. griechischen Ur sprungs, verselbstständigte Kurzform von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- English6.1%
A male given name from Ancient Greek from the Latin form of Andrew.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Andreas, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andreas counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #47 | 1,075,513as Andrew | 1 in 309 | 1.1M | Andrew | 695 |
| DE Germany | #5 | ≈830,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | listed | Andreas | 373 |
| GB United Kingdom | #14 | ≈460,000 est. | ≈1 in 144 | 3 | Andrew | 491 |
| NG Nigeria | #247 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Andrew | 144 |
| SE Sweden | #114 | 182,968as Anders | 1 in 56 | 183K | Andreas | 158 |
| HU Hungary | — | 90,385as Andrea | 1 in 108 | 90K | אנדרס | 5 |
| AT Austria | #6 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 118 | 26K | Andreas | 214 |
| CY Cyprus | #15 | 36,682as Ανδρεας | 1 in 35 | 37K | Andreas | 137 |
| NO Norway | #263 | 21,394 | 1 in 256 | 82K | Andreas | 124 |
1,075,513 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Andreas is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In grc, from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andreas Vesaliusb. 1514BEFlemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)
- Andrew Fielding Huxleyb. 1917GBEnglish physiologist and biophysicist (1917–2012)
- Andreas Papandreoub. 1919GRGreek economist and politician (1919–1996)
- Reinhold Messnerb. 1944ITnot in their usual nameItalian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer (born 1944)
- Niki Laudab. 1949ATnot in their usual nameAustrian former Formula 1 driver (1949–2019)
- Andreas Köpkeb. 1962DEGerman footballer
- Andreas Möllerb. 1967DEGerman footballer
- Mark van Bommelb. 1977NLnot in their usual nameDutch association football player and manager
- Andreas Ivanschitzb. 1983ATAustrian footballer
- Andreas Christensenb. 1996DKDanish association football player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 109 sources across 51 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 82K | #5 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 75K | #42 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 44K | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2024 | 26K | #84 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 21K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12K | #2,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 191 | #2,201 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 154 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2024 | 90 | #84 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 69 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 26 | #17,122 |
Reference works 9
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Andreas?
- In the etymology graph, Andrew, Andres and Andre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Andreas come from?
- from Greek Andreas, from andreios 'manly' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Andreas a male or female name?
- Andreas is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- How do you pronounce Andreas?
- A machine transcription gives /anˈdʁeːas/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Andreas have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 million people named Andrew, more than in any other country we hold.
- What does the name Andreas mean?
- In German, Andrew (biblical figure)
- How common is the name Andreas?
- In Norway, the national register counted 21,394 people named Andreas in 2025, about 1 in 256 residents.
- How common is Andreas compared with other names?
- In the United States, Andreas is the 47th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Andreas?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/andreasThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Andreas” — the 47th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.