Given name · Ukrainian
Андрій
“manly, courageous”
Андрій (Andríj) is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Ukrainian.
UkrainianWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Andrìj.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Андрій goes back to Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας, meaning “manly, courageous.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Андрій developed from Ἀνδρέας.
Андрій’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Андрій has a diminutive in Андрі́йко. In Ukrainian usage, Андрій developed from the Ancient Greek form Ἀνδρέας. In Ukrainian usage, Андрій has a conventional equivalent in the German form Andreas.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Андрій has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Андрій comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 35
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Andrewequivalent
- Andresequivalent
- Andreaequivalent
- Andreequivalent
- Anderequivalent
- Andersequivalent
- AndreasGerman
- Andreiequivalent
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- Andreyequivalent
- AndrejCzech
- Andriyequivalent
- Andrzejequivalent
- Andorequivalent
- Ondrejequivalent
- Andreuequivalent
- Androwequivalent
- Andriusequivalent
- Andrejsequivalent
- Андрэйequivalent
- АндрейRussian
- ΑνδρέαςGreek
- AndréPortuguese, French
- AndrésSpanish
- OndřejCzech
- Андріянequivalent
- Andréasequivalent
- Andrásequivalent
- Adriianequivalent
- Адріянequivalent
- Anttiequivalent
- Drejcequivalent
- Andrijequivalent
- Андрі́йhas masculine form
- Russianequivalent
- 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 Андрій
- Andriy ShevchenkoUkrainian association football playerborn 1976
- Andriy YarmolenkoUkrainian association football playerborn 1989
- Verka SerduchkaUkrainian artist, entertainer, singer-songwriter, and actor.born 1973
- Andriy PyatovUkrainian footballer (born 1984)
- Andriy LuninUkrainian association football playerborn 1999
- Andrey KurkovUkrainian writer (born 1961)
- Andriy VoroninUkrainian association football player and managerborn 1979
- Andrey YeryomenkoMarshal of the Soviet Union (1892-1970)
- Andriy ParubiyUkrainian politician (1971–2025)
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