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Andrei

#2,517 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Andrew

Andrei has been given to 3,095 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #2,517 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Andrei, 2025

1 in 62,600

Andrei over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andrei: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Andrew

Russian and Ancient Greek

What Andrei means

Andrei is a form of Andrew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Andrei is used in English, Portuguese and Romanian. Its origins include Russian and Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrew, Андре́й, André and Andrej.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Andrei is pronounced /ˈɑːndɹeɪ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,095 boys were recorded with the name Andrei between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,361 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,268 in 2020 to #2,517 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,931 in 2015 to #2,517 in 2025.

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 Andrei?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 32,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,517
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andrei 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 2025 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andrei. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andreis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andrei was born before 2006 — so the typical Andrei is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
66.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,081
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.5% of all recorded uses (912).

Is Andrei 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
−280
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−249
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−586
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.71×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
44.5%
Peak was 2006 (119)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,361
2006

Spellings of Andrei

Andrei is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 82.8% against Andrei's 0.19%.

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.

Where Andrei is used

Across 2016–2025, Andrei was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 25,131 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 14,286
  2. 2Florida1 in 16,667
  3. 3Arizona1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 50,000
  6. 6Maryland1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Michigan1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Andrei around the world

Where Andrei 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
    1996–2025
    #615
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2010–2024
    #535
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2023–2023
    #395
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    1998–2024
    #655
    in 2024
  • France
    1990–2025
    #1,349
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2019
    #446
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,011
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1952–2011
    #487
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Andrei

People whose public names include Andrei, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Andrei in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Andrei. Linked forms have their own page here.

AnderAndorAndreAndriAndersAndreaAndrejAndresAndreuAndrewAndreyAndriyAndrowOndrejAndreasAndrejsAndriusAndrzejAndréAnttiDrejcAndrásAndrésAnndra

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Andrei by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,517
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 249
Best rank ever
#1,361
2006
Peak year
2006
119 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,095
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Andrei

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

AndreyAndraeAndreaAndersAndrezAndreeAnderAndrikAndruAndreasAndrejAndraAndenAndrickAndrewsAndreusAndriyAndrisAndersenAndiAndrzejAndryAndrueAndrell

Names with a curve like Andrei

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Andrei, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

NikitaAntoniKrishnaNeelJaysenAdrianoMarekZachBrighamNateWillemKamran

Sibling names for Andrei

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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