Andrew

Andrew
Saint Andrew
Pronunciation	/ændruː/
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, Andy, Andre, Andrei, Andrejs, Andrzej, Andriy, Andrea, Andreas, Andrey, Andrej, Andrés, Drew

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 for 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, "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 boys name 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 boy's name among infants, and it was third in 1964.^[17]

In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second most common boy's name of the 1990s.^[18]

Year	England & Wales	Ireland	Northern Ireland	Scotland	Norway
2007	99th[19]	*	*	*	*
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
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]}

Andrew variants

• Andro: Georgia for males
• Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra: Scottish Gaelic for males
• Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas: Irish Gaelic for males
• Anaru: New Zealand, for males – Maori transliteration of Andrew
• Andra: Scots for males
• Ander: Basque for males
• Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for males
• András, Endre: Hungarian for males
• Andraš: Prekmurje dialect of Slovene for males
• Andraž: Slovene for males
• Andre or André: French for males, Portuguese for males
• Andrea: Albanian, Italian for males; Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, Galician, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Slovak (Slovakia), Spanish, Swedish for females
• Andreu: Catalan for males
• Andreas: Armenian, Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish, Welsh for males
• Andreea: Romanian for females
• Andrée: French for females
• Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for males
• Andrei: Moldovan, Romanian, Belarusian, Russian or Macedonian for males
• Andreia: Portuguese for females
• Andreina: Italian for females
• Andris: Latvian for males
• Andrei: Romanian for males
• Andrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Croatian and Serbian, Macedonian, Slovene or Belarusian for males
• Andrey: Russian and Bulgarian for males (Cyrillic and thus often alternatively transliterated as Andrei for both)
• Andreja: Croatian, Slovene for females
• Andres: Estonian for males
• Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish for males
• Andreu: Catalan for males
• Andreus: Greek
• Andrew: English for males
• Andric: English for males
• Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans for males
• Andri: Icelandic for males
• Andrii: Ukrainian for males
• Andrija: Croatian and Serbian for males
• Andrijana: Serbian for females
• Andris or Andrejs: Latvian for males
• Aindriú: Gaeilge for males
• Andrius: Lithuanian for males
• Andriy: Ukrainian for males
• Andrzej or Jędrzej: Polish for males
• Andrzeja: Polish for females; obsolete
• Antti: Finnish for males
• Ondřej: Czech for males
• Ondrej: Slovak for males
• Andrij: Ukrainian for males
• Indri: Maltese for males
• In Albanian: Andrea, Andreu, André, Ndré, Ndreu, Andër, Andërs, only for males
• アンデルー: Japanese for males
• 安德鲁: Mandarin Chinese for males
• أندرو: Arabic for males

For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms

Notable Andrews

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 Presidents

• 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 Bird – American musician
• Andrew Bloom – American Olympic shot putter
• Andrew Bogut – basketball 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 J. Feustel – American astronaut
• Andrew Flintoff – cricketer
• Andrew Rube Foster – Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
• Andrew Garfield – actor
• Andrew Gaze – basketball player
• Andy 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 - an 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 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 Luck – American football player
• Andrej Mangold – German basketball player
• Andrew Marr – broadcaster
• Andrew Marvell – poet
• Andrew McCullough – Australian Rugby League player
• Andrew McCutchen – baseball player
• Andrew Mehrtens – rugby union player
• Andrew Mellon – American businessman, philanthropist and politician
• Andrew Murray – tennis player
• Andrew Neil – political journalist and broadcaster
• 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 Sachs – character actor
• Andrew Sega – American musician
• Andrew "Andy" Shernoff – songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The Dictators
• 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 Tanenbaum – Computer Scientist
• Andrew Timlin – field hockey player
• Andrew Toney – basketball player
• Andy Van Slyke – baseball player
• Andrew VanWyngarden – musician
• Andrew W.K. – singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, entertainer, and motivational speaker
• Andrew Wagner – American film director
• Andrew Walter – American football player
• Andy Warhol – famous 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

See also

• All pages beginning with "Andrew"
• All pages beginning with "Andy"
• All pages beginning with "Drew"
• Andy (given name)
• Andre (disambiguation)
• Andrea
• Andreas (disambiguation)
• Andreou
• Andrey
• Andrew (surname)

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