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Andrew is the English form of a given name and surname common in many countries. Alternatives include Andrey, Andrei, Andreiy, ‘Andreas’, ‘Andrés’, ‘Anders’, ‘Endrew’, 'Andrej' and ‘André’. ‘Andrew’ is a common name in English-speaking countries. In the 1990s it was among the top ten most popular names for boys in those countries.^[3] In Italian, the equivalent to ‘Andrew’ is ‘Andrea’, though ‘Andrea’ is feminine in most other languages.

The word comes from old greek 'aner/andros', meaning "male".

Andrew is frequently shortened to ‘Andy' or ‘Drew’.

Popularity

Australia

In 1990, Andrew was the seventh most popular name in Australia.^[4] In 1980, it was the 19th most common name,^[5] while in 1970, it was the 31st most common name.^[6] Andrew was the second most popular boys name in the Northern Territory in 1980.^[7] In Victoria, Andrew was the third most popular name for a boy in the 1970s.^[8]

Canada

Andrew was the twentieth most popular name chosen for male infants in 2005.^[9] Andrew was the 16th most popular name for infants in British Columbia in 2004, ^[10] the 17th most popular name in 2003,^[11] and the 19th most popular name in 2002.^[12] In 2001, it was the 18th most common name.^[13] From 1999 - 2003, Andrew was the sixth most often chosen name for a boy.^[14]

Europe

In the United Kingdom in 1974, Andrew was the fourth most common name among infants, and it was third in 1965.^[15]

In Norway, with the spelling 'Andreas', the name has been the second most common boy's name of the 1990s.^[16]

United States

The eleventh most common baby name in 2006^[44], Andrew was among the ten most popular names for male infants in 2005.^[45] Andrew was the sixth most popular choice for a male infant in 2004.^[46] In 2002 and 2001, Andrew was the seventh most popular baby name in the United States.^[47][48][49] In the 1980s, Andrew was the 19th most popular choice of baby name in the United States.^[50] In the 1970s it was the 31st most popular name.^[51] From the 1960s stretching back at least as far as the 1880s, Andrew was not among the forty most popular names in America.^{[52][53][54][55][56][57][58][59][60]}

Andrew variants

• Aindréas, Aindriú, Aindreas : Irish Gaelic for males
• Aindrea, Aindreas or Anndra : Scottish Gaelic for males
• Anaru: New Zealand, for males - Maori transliteration of Andrew
• Anders: Danish, Norwegian, Swedish for males
• Ander: Basque for males
• Andersine: Danish for females
• Andraž: Slovene for males
• András: Hungarian for males
• Andre: Javanese for males
• André: French, Portuguese for males
• Andrea: Albanian, Italian for males (the Italian form is usually for males, it is rarely a female name); Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish for females
• Andreas: Austrian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Swedish for males
• Andrée: French for females
• Andrees: Older Dutch and seldom used Afrikaans for males
• Andrei: Russian, Romanian for males
• Andreia: Portuguese for females
• Andrej or Ondrej: Slovak (Slovakia), Czech, Croatian and Serbian, Slovene for males
• Andreja: Croatian, Slovene for females
• Andres: Estonian for males
• Andrés: Icelandic, Spanish for males
• Andreu: Catalan for males
• Andreus: Greek
• Andrew: English for males
• Andrey: Bulgarian for males
• Andric: English for males
• Andries: Dutch and Afrikaans for males
• Andrija: Croatian & Serbian for males
• Andris: Latvian for males
• Andrius: Lithuanian for males
• Andriy: Ukrainian for males
• Andrzej or Jedrzej: Polish for males
• Antero, Antti: Finnish for males
• Indri: Maltese for males

For alternate forms of Anna, see Anna (name)#Variant forms

Famous Andrews

Saint Andrew

In the Christian Bible, Saint Andrew was the earliest disciple of Jesus and one of the twelve Apostles. The Armenian name Androosh is most likely derived from the name of Saint Andrew.

Other saints named Andrew include:

• Saint Andrew of Trier (d. 235), Bishop of Trier
• Saint Andrew of Crete, an 8th century theologian, homilist, and hymnographer
• Saint Andrew of Crete (martyr)
• Saint Andrew of Constantinople
• Saints Andrew Dung-Lac An Tran, Andrew Thong Kim Nguyen, Andrew Trong Van Tram, and Andrew Tuong of the Vietnamese Martyrs
• Saint Andrew Kim Taegon of the Korean Martyrs

Kings Andrew

• King Andrew I of Hungary
• King Andrew II of Hungary
• King Andrew III of Hungary

Princes Andrew

• Prince Andrew, Duke of York (1960–), second son of Elizabeth II
• Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark (1882-1944), the aforementioned's paternal grandfather and namesake
• Edward VIII (1894–1972) bore the name Andrew
• Prince William of Gloucester (1941–1972), grandson of George V, was William Henry Andrew Frederick

United States Presidents

• Andrew Jackson (7th President of the United States of America)
• Andrew Johnson (17th President of the United States of America)

Business, culture, science and sport

• Andrew Bogut - basketball player
• Andrew Brunette - ice hockey player
• Andrew Buckley - field hockey player
• Andrew Bynum - basketball player
• Andrew Carnegie - steel magnate and philanthropist
• Andrew "Dice" Clay - comedian
• Andrew Clayton - freestyle swimmer
• Andrew Davies - screenwriter
• Andrew Flintoff - cricketer
• Andrew Rube Foster - Hall of Fame manager for baseball's Negro Leagues
• Andrew Gaze - basketball player
• Andy Griffith - actor/singer/comedian
• Andrew Huxley - physiologist
• Andrew Hastie - field hockey player
• Andrew Johns - rugby league player
• Andrew Johnson - footballer
• Andy Kaufman - comedian
• Andrew Lang - man of letters
• Andrew Lincoln (born 1973), British actor
• Andrew Lloyd Webber - composer and impresario
• Andrew Marr - broadcaster
• Andrew Marvell - poet
• Andrew Murray - tennis player
• Andrew Neil - political journalist and broadcaster
• Andrew Raycroft - ice hockey player
• Andrew Ridgeley - English musician
• Andrew Robinson - water polo player
• Andrew Sachs - character actor
• Andrew Sega - American musician
• Andrew "Andy" Shernoff - songwriter/guitarist for the pre-punk band The Dictators
• Andrew Stockdale - guitarist and singer of Wolfmother
• Andrew Symonds - cricketer
• Andrew Timlin - field hockey player
• Andrew Toney - basketball player
• Andrew Walter - American football player
• Andy Warhol - famous Pop artist
• Andrew Wood - singer
• Andy Rautins - Syracuse University Basketball Player

Brother Andrew

• Brother Andrew is a Christian famed for his message to the oppressed church behind the Iron Curtain and for founding the charity Open Doors.

References

See also

• All pages beginning with "Andrew"
• All pages beginning with "Andy"
• All pages beginning with "Drew"
• Andy (given name)
• Andre
• Andreas
• Andrei
• Andrea
• Andreou

From LoveToKnow 1911

Definition from Wiktionary, a free dictionary

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας (Andreas), cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (andreios), “‘manly’”), both from ἀνήρ (anēr), “‘man’”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: ăn'dro͞o, IPA: /ˈændruː/, SAMPA: /"{ndru:/

Proper noun

Andrew

1. (Biblical) The first Apostle in the New Testament.
2. A male given name.
3. A patronymic surname.

Related terms

• pet forms: Andy, Dandy, Drew
• Andrea (feminine)
• Andrews (surname)

Quotations

• 1611, King James Version of the Bible (Authorized Version), John 1:40-41:

  One of the two which heard John speak, and followed him, was Andrew, Simon Peter's brother. He first findeth his his own brother and saith unto him, We have found the Messias, which is, being interpreted, the Christ.

• 1890 John Davidson, Perfervid: The Career of Ninian Jamieson, Ward and Downey 1890, page 94:

  I like him - I like a man who can be extreme. Depend upon it, Miss Mercer - but what is his first name?" "Andrew." "A good name, though common - there is a possibility of a sound reputation in Andrew Morton, especially if he narrows himself down to a point - - -

• 1966 Ester Wier, The Barrel, D. McCay Co. 1966, page 57:

  "Well, I'd say he ought to have a Scottish name like Andrew or Bruce or Sandy...or...Duncan...or Angus or..." He ticked them off on his fingers as they came to mind.

• 1985 Ed McBain, Eight Black Horses, Simon&Schuster 2003, ISBN 074346690X, page 138-139:

  Lloyd was a piss-ant name. Andrew was better because Andrew was one of the twelve apostles, and anybody with a twelve-apostle name was a good guy. If you were reading a book - which Parker rarely did - and you ran across a guy named Luke, Matthew, Thomas, Peter, Paul, James, like that, you knew right off he was supposed to be a good guy. - - - He would have preferred to be called Andrew, which was his true and honorable middle name.

Translations

Anagrams

• Anagrams of adenrw
• wander
• warden
• warned

From BibleWiki

Meaning: manliness

A Greek name; one of Jesus' apostles. He was of Bethsaida in Galilee (Jn 1:44), and was the brother of Simon Peter (Mt 4:18; Mt 10:2). On one occasion John the Baptist, whose disciple he then was, pointing to Jesus, said, "Behold the Lamb of God" (Jn 1:40); and Andrew, hearing him, immediately became a follower of Jesus, the first of his disciples. After he had been led to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, his first care was to bring also his brother Simon to Jesus.

The two brothers seem to have after this pursued for a while their usual calling as fishermen, and did not become the stated attendants of the Lord till after John's imprisonment (Mt 4:18f; Mk 1:16f).

Very little is related of Andrew. He was one of the confidential disciples (Jn 6:8; 12:22), and with Peter, James, and John inquired of Jesus privately regarding his future coming (Mk 13:3). He was present at the feeding of the five thousand (Jn 6:9), and he introduced the Greeks who desired to see Jesus (Jn 12:22); but of his subsequent history little is known.

It is noteworthy that Andrew thrice brings others to Christ, (1) Peter; (2) the lad with the loaves; and (3) certain Greeks. These incidents may be regarded as a key to his character.

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