Andrej
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Czech: a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɑndɹeɪ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Andrej is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name.
- MDMoldova1 in 47as Andrei(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 48as Андрей
- BYBelarus≈1 in 63as Андрей
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 Andrej 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #16 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 557 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 named Андрей, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, as Andrei
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Андрей in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Andre in US United States, BR Brazil, Андрій in UA Ukraine and Andrzej in PL Poland.
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)
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Andrej is read(measured from records)
Andrej is one spelling over 3 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.
- Russian74%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Andrej in Russian.
- Czech6.3%
a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German6.1%
männl. Vom., russische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andrej 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #12 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 48 | #10 | Андрей | 297 |
| US United States | #195 | 1,075,513as Andrew | 1 in 309 | 1.1M | Andre | 557 |
| UA Ukraine | #18 | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 66 | listed | Андрій | 167 |
| BR Brazil | #24 | 559,511as Andre | 1 in 378 | 584K | Andre | 264 |
| PL Poland | #6 | 513,751as Andrzej | 1 in 75 | 523K | Andrzej | 238 |
| BY Belarus | #9 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | 100 | Андрей | 106 |
| MD Moldova | #29 | 72,195as Andrei | 1 in 47 | 72K | Andrej | 62 |
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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Andrej 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.
Czech: ‘learned’ form of ANDREW . See also OND EJ Pet forms: Andrá , Androu ek .
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andrei Rublevb. 1360RUnot in their usual namemedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
- Andrei Markovb. 1856RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician
- Andrei Andreyevich Gromykob. 1909BYnot in their usual nameSoviet diplomat
- Andrei Sakharovb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
- Andrei Tarkovskyb. 1932RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
- Andrej Babišb. 1954SKCzech politician and businessman, Prime Minister of the Czech Republic
- Andre Geimb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRussian-born Dutch-British physicist
- Andrej Kiskab. 1963SK4th President of Slovakia
- Andrej Plenkovićb. 1970HRPrime Minister of Croatia since 2016
- Andrei Arshavinb. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian 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 61 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 745 | #15,445 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 361 | #871 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 337 | #871 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 16 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 11 | #2,659 |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- 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
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 does the name Andrej mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Ancient Greek, equivalent to English Andrew Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Andrej?
- In the etymology graph, Andrew, Andres and Andre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Andrej?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɑndɹeɪ/ (IPA) for Russian.
- Is Andrej a male or female name?
- Andrej 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.
- In which country does Andrej have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Андрей in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Andrej most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Andrej itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Moldova's: the national register counts about 1 in 47 people named Andrei.
- How common is the name Andrej?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,075,513 people named Andrew in 2020, about 1 in 309 residents.
- How common is Andrej compared with other names?
- In Russia, Andrej is the 12th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Andrej?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/andrejThe 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, “Andrej” — the 12th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.