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Andrej

#5,621 in 2025Boys' name

Manly

Andrej has been given to 414 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #5,621 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 18 recorded.

Babies named Andrej, 2025

1 in 207,000

Andrej over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andrej: meaning, origin, and history

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Ancient Greek

What Andrej means

Andrej means “manly”, associated with andreîos.

Origin, language, and formation

Andrej is used in Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak and Slovene. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Andrej comes through Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Andrej is pronounced [ˈandrɛj].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 414 boys were recorded with the name Andrej between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 18 in 2011; its best national rank was #3,543 in 1965.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,716 in 2020 to #5,621 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #8,065 in 2015 to #5,621 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 Andrej?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,621
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andrej 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 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andrej. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andrejs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andrej was born before 2009 — so the typical Andrej is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
414
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Choose a decade

2010s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (115).

Is Andrej 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
+297
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+95
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,444
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.78×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
88.9%
Peak was 2011 (18)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,543
1965

Spellings of Andrej

Andrej is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 82.8% against Andrej's 0.03%.

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 Andrej is used

Across 1910–2025, Andrej was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 406,404 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

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. Andrej has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Andrej around the world

Where Andrej 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2007–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    2005–2021
    #6,295
    in 2021
  • Norway
    1880–2024
    #468
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Andrej by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,621
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 95
Best rank ever
#3,543
1965
Peak year
2011
18 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
414
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Andrej

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

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Sibling names for Andrej

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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