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Andras

Boys' name

Form of Andreas

Andras has been given to 207 babies in the U.S. since 1963. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2005, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Andras, 2023

1 in 663,000

Andras over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andras: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Andreas

Ancient Greek

What Andras means

Andras is a form of Andreas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Andras is used in Faroese.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Andras → Andreas. The family’s meaning is “manly”, recorded in English with the source elements andreîos.

Origin, language, and formation

Andras is used in Faroese and Welsh. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andreas and Andrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Andras is pronounced /anˈdras/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 207 boys were recorded with the name Andras between 1963 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2005; its best national rank was #3,662 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Andras?

Andras had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 342,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andras sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andras. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andrass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andras was born before 1999 — so the typical Andras is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
30.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
207
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 30.9% of all recorded uses (64).

Is Andras rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2005 (10)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,662
1963

Spellings of Andras

Andras is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 82.8% against Andras's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Andras around the world

Where Andras ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2024
    #3,689
    in 2024
  • France
    1997–2008
    #4,955
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1953–1958
    #433
    in 1958

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Andras by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,662
1963
Peak year
2005
10 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
207
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Andras

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

AndrisAndriyAndrosAndrusAndrejAnduinAndieAndrielAndriAndrellAndrikAndryAndrzejAndoniAndrayAndreuAndranikAndricAndreusAndreeAndrezAndrewsAndrickAnden

Sibling names for Andras

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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