Given name & surname
Andreas
“manly; a warrior”
Andreas is a form of Andrew. One Greek interpretation is “manly; a warrior.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Andreas is a form of Andrew. One Greek interpretation is “manly; a warrior.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Andreas is a form of Andrew. An origin associated with Andrew is Greek.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Dutch usage, Andreas developed from Ἀνδρέας.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Andreas through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 8,679
- 8,630 boys · 49 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 221 babies
- 2025
- 154
- #1,276 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +6%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 154 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 1,276 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 6.1% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 221 in 2006. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (20). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 11,965 as a first name in 2020; 2,601 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Andreas’s family of names
In German usage, Andreas has a diminutive in Andi. In Norwegian Bokmål usage, Andreas shares a linguistic root with the English form Andrew. In German usage, Andreas has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Andrea.
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Around the world
Andreas has relatives in 46 languages.
57 related names in 46 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 58
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Andrewdoublet · English
- AndresEstonian
- Andreafeminine form · Italian, German
- AnderBasque
- AndreiRomanian
- Andreyequivalent
- AndrejCzech, Slovene
- AndriaCorsican
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- Andriyequivalent
- AndrzejPolish
- Androsequivalent
- Andorequivalent
- AndrusEstonian
- AndrisLatvian, Hungarian
- AnteroFinnish
- AndreuCatalan
- OndrejSlovak
- AndriusLithuanian
- AndrejsLatvian
- AndreoEsperanto
- Άκηςequivalent
- Andriejusequivalent
- Anndraequivalent
- Ánddeequivalent
- Ándáequivalent
- Resequivalent
- Akisequivalent
- Anttiequivalent
- Drejcequivalent
- Ándeequivalent
- Άνδροςequivalent
- Andreasen“son of” surname · Danish
- Andreasson“son of” surname · Norwegian Bokmål
- Andreassen“son of” surname · Norwegian Bokmål
- АндрейRussian
- Андријаderivative · Serbo-Croatian, Serbian
- HandrijUpper Sorbian
- ΑνδρέαςGreek
- Andrijaderivative · Serbo-Croatian, Croatian
- Indriderivative · Maltese
- NdrekëAlbanian
- NdreAlbanian
- NdrecëAlbanian
- AndrieuOccitan
- OndřejCzech
- Andriascognate · Faroese, Norwegian
- Ἀνδρέαςroot · Ancient Greek
- AndrásHungarian
- АндрійUkrainian
- AndražSlovene
- JędrzejPolish
- ÁndarasNorthern Sami
- DreesLow German
- IndrìMaltese
- AindriúIrish
- AindréasIrish
- AnterusFinnish
- AndrevBreton
People named Andreas
- Andreas VesaliusFlemish anatomist, physician and author (1514–1564)1515–1564
- Niki LaudaAustrian former Formula 1 driver (1949–2019)
- Andreas BrehmeGerman association football player (1960–2024)
- Andreas KaplanGerman economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social media; artificial intelligenceborn 1977
- Andreas ChristensenDanish association football playerborn 1996
- André Michel LwoffFrench microbiologist1902–1994
- Andreas PapandreouGreek economist and politician (1919–1996)
- Andreas MöllerGerman footballerborn 1967
- Prince Andrew of Greece and DenmarkGreek prince; father of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, grandfather Charles III (1882-1944)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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