Andy
given name · Latin script
Meaning: English diminutive of Andrew/André, from Greek Andreas 'brave, manly'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ændi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Andy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.2K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 1.4K
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 Andy 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)
- #973 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 605 (measured from records)
- 1 in 739 (inferred from the name graph)
91,633 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ändÿ in EC Ecuador.
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)
English diminutive of Andrew/André, from Greek Andreas 'brave, manly'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andy 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 | #427 | 91,633 | 1 in 3.6K | 90K | Andy | 605 |
| GB United Kingdom | #216 | ≈59,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | 6 | Andy | 363 |
| PH Philippines | #667 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Andy | 125 |
| DE Germany | #402 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Andy | 213 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Andy | 87 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 22,875 | 1 in 739 | 23K | Ändÿ | 60 |
| BE Belgium | #551 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 3 | Andy | 146 |
| SG Singapore | #122 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Andy | 148 |
| AL Albania | — | 3,528as Andi | 1 in 871 | 3.5K | — | 4 |
91,633 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); INEC — civil registry names; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (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)
Andy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the male given name Andrew, from Ancient Greek.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Andy är en engelsk smekform till → Andrew. En känd namnbärare är Andy Warhol (1928–87), amerikansk konstnär.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In French, Diminutif anglo-américain d’André, du grec andr- « homme ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Scottish and English: pet form of ANDREW .
as a word
In Czech, Andes (a mountain range in South America)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Andy Garcíab. 1956CUAmerican actor and director (born 1956)
- Andy Laub. 1961CNHong Kong actor, film producer, and singer
- Andy Serkisb. 1964GBBritish actor
- Lilly Wachowskib. 1967USnot in their usual namePolish-American film director
- Andrew Coleb. 1971GBnot in their usual nameEnglish footballer (born 1971)
- Andy Whitfieldb. 1971GBWelsh actor (1971–2011)
- Andy Beshearb. 1977USAmerican attorney and politician (born 1977)
- Andy Sambergb. 1978USAmerican comedian and actor (born 1978)
- Andy Roddickb. 1982USAmerican tennis player (born 1982)
- Andrew Robertsonb. 1994GBnot in their usual nameScottish association football player (born 1994)
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 110 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90K | #582 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 23K | #106 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.5K | #582 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 524 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | 2024 | 185 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
Reference works 6
- 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)
- 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
- Is Andy a male or female name?
- Andy 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.
- What are other forms of the name Andy?
- In the etymology graph, Drew, Andi and DeAndre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Andy mean, and where does it come from?
- English diminutive of Andrew/André, from Greek Andreas 'brave, manly'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- In which country does Andy have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 92 thousand people named Andy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled andy.
- Where is Andy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Andy is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 739 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Andy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 91,633 people named Andy in 2020, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Andy compared with other names?
- In the United States, Andy is the 427th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Andy?
- A machine transcription gives /ændi/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Andy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/andyThe 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, “Andy” — the 427th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.