Andro

Boys' name

Courageous, through Andrija

Andro has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 1996. 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 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Andro, 2024

1 in 557,000

Andro over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andro: meaning, origin, and history

Courageous, through Andrija

Ancient Greek

What Andro means

Andro belongs to the name family reached through Andro → Andrija. Its meaning is “courageous”.

Origin, language, and formation

Andro is used in Serbo-Croatian and Welsh. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrija and Andrew.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Andro is pronounced /anˈdroː/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 boys were recorded with the name Andro between 1996 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2008; its best national rank was #8,006 in 1996.

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.

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How common is Andro?

Andro had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 557,000; 6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only: 1 in 287,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 386,177 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Andro 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andro was born before 2008 — so the typical Andro is around 17 today.

Median birth year: 2008; About 17 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 40.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 89.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 59; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 40.7% of all recorded uses (24).

Is Andro 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2008 (8)
Years since peak: 17; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever: #8,006; 1996

Spellings of Andro

Andro is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 72.4% against Andro's <0.01%.

Andrew72.4%1,329,454
Andre7.1%130,656
Andres5.2%96,284
Andy5.1%94,185
Pedro5.1%94,083
Aldo0.97%17,728
Leandro0.60%11,078
Anders0.44%8,026

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.

Andro around the world

Where Andro 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.

France
1991–2025
#4,107
in 2025
South Australia
1967–2011
#784
in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Andro 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: —
Best rank ever: #8,006; 1996
Peak year: 2008; 8 that year
First recorded: 1996
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 59
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Andro

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

Andri Andor Andes Anduin Andie Andin Andrw Anddy Andrus Andros Andel Andry Andino Andria Andyn Andris Andron Andan Andriy Andony Andren Andhy Anderw Andiel

Sibling names for Andro

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

For a sister

Jaylen Yamilet Dalilah Desire Jaidyn Kalia Rihanna Jakayla

For a brother

Kaeden Gavyn Tyshawn Marley Javion Baron Kale Seamus

Explore around Andro

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