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Андрей
“manly”
Андрей (Andréj) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Russian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and Russian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Andrew.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Russian usage, Андрей developed from Ἀνδρέας.
Андрей’s family of names
In Russian usage, Андрей has a diminutive in Андрю́ша. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Андрей shares a linguistic root with the Slovak form Andrej. In Russian usage, Андрей has a conventional equivalent in the English form Andrew.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Андрей has relatives in 43 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Андрей comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 8
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 48
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- AndrewEnglish
- AndresEstonian
- AndreaPolish, Italian
- Andreequivalent
- AnderBasque
- AndersSwedish
- AndreasGerman, Danish
- AndreyTurkish
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- Andreeborrowing · izh
- AndriyEnglish
- Andriequivalent
- AndrzejPolish
- Andorequivalent
- AndrusEstonian
- AndrisLatvian
- Androwequivalent
- Ondrejequivalent
- Andreuequivalent
- AndreoEsperanto
- AndriusLithuanian
- AndrejsLatvian
- Anttiequivalent
- Drejcequivalent
- ΑνδρέαςGreek
- AndréPortuguese, French
- JędrzejPolish
- AndrésSpanish
- OndřejCzech
- Andréasequivalent
- Anndraequivalent
- Андре́йhas masculine form
- アンドレイJapanese
- आन्द्रेयHindi, Finnish
- АндрійUkrainian
- AndrijaSerbian
- АндријаSerbian
- АндрејSerbian, Macedonian
- אנדרייHebrew
- ΑνδρίκοςGreek
- ΆνδροςGreek
- AndrásHungarian
- АндрэйBelarusian
- أندرييArabic
- AndriejusLithuanian
- 안드레이Korean
- 安德烈Chinese
- ΑντρέιGreek
- Ἀνδρέαςroot · Ancient Greek
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Андрей
- Andrei SakharovSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
- Andrei TarkovskySoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
- Andrey KolmogorovRussian mathematician (1903–1987)
- Andrei GromykoSoviet diplomat1909–1989
- Andrey ArshavinRussian association football playerborn 1981
- Andrei Rublevmedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
- Andrei KonchalovskySoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter and film producerborn 1937
- Andrey MarkovRussian mathematician1856–1922
- Andrei ZhdanovSoviet politician (1896-1948)
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