Given name
Andrejs
Andrejs is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Latvian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1956. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Andrejs through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1969
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2007. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1969. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 195 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Andrejs’s family of names
In Latvian usage, Andrejs shares a linguistic root with the English form Andrew. In Lithuanian usage, Andrejs has a conventional equivalent in the Estonian form Andres. In Latvian usage, Andrejs has a conventional equivalent in the English form Andrew.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Andrejs has relatives in 9 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
10 related names in 9 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 28
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Andrewcognate · English
- AndresEstonian
- Andreaequivalent
- Andreequivalent
- Anderequivalent
- Andersequivalent
- AndreasGerman
- Andreyequivalent
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Andrejs
- Andrejs RubinsLatvian association football player (1978–2022)
- Andrejs PumpursLatvian poet (1841–1902)
- Andrejs UpītsLatvian poet and writer (1877-1970)
- Andrejs ŠtolcersLatvian footballer (born 1974)
- Andrejs PerepļotkinsLatvian footballer (born 1984)
- Andrejs ProhorenkovsLatvian footballer (1977–2025)
- Andrejs RastorgujevsLatvian biathlete (born 1988)
- Andrejs JurjānsLatvian composer (1856-1922)
- Andrejs CigaņiksLatvian association football player (born 1997)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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