Andrew
Andrew places #73 across the country in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. Its record runs from 1880 through a 1987 peak, 1,329,454 children in all.
What Andrew carries
Andrew · Greek
“man”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Andrew’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Andrew, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Andrew since 1880
Andrew peaked in 1987 at #6; #73 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Andrew is most common
Andrew is most common in Wyoming: 0.83% of the state's recorded boys' names in 2025. New Hampshire (0.58%) and Vermont (0.5%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Andrew
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Andrea
#235 in 2025 · Greek
Alexander
#30 in 2025 · Greek
Angel
#67 in 2025 · Greek
Nicholas
#112 in 2025 · Greek
Melanie
#142 in 2025 · Greek
Katherine
#186 in 2025 · Greek
Andres
#200 in 2025 · Greek
Aaron
#80 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with A · Greek names · all names
About Andrew
How common is Andrew today?
Andrew places #73 across the country in 2025, with the crowd thinning around it. The chart above draws the whole run since 1880, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Andrew?
“man” is the meaning our source sets down, of Greek origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
Which names sit near Andrew?
Andrea, Alexander and Angel sit nearest to Andrew on origin, era, syllables and first letter. Put your own names into the sibling matcher for a list scored against them.
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