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Andrejs

Boys' name

Transliteration of Андре́й

Andrejs has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1956. 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 1969, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Andrejs, 2007

1 in 800,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andrejs: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Андре́й

Ancient Greek

What Andrejs means

Andrejs is a transliteration of Андре́й.

Origin, language, and formation

Andrejs is used in Latvian. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Андре́й and Andrew.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Andrejs between 1956 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1969; its best national rank was #3,954 in 1969.

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 Andrejs?

Andrejs had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2007, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2007
1 in 800,000
5 of 3,997,748 births
Among boys only
1 in 415,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2007
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
554,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andrejs 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 2007 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 554,207 children born in 2007 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andrejs. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andrejss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andrejs was born before 1969 — so the typical Andrejs is around 56 today.

Median birth year
1969
About 56 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
52.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
21
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 52.4% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Andrejs 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 1969 (6)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#3,954
1969

Spellings of Andrejs

Andrejs is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 83.7% against Andrejs'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.

Andrejs around the world

Where Andrejs 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
    2012–2013
    #4,685
    in 2013
  • Ireland
    2009–2009
    #701
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1950–1993
    #519
    in 1993

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Andrejs 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
#3,954
1969
Peak year
1969
6 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Andrejs

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

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Sibling names for Andrejs

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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