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Andrzej

#10,780 in 2025Boys' name

Man, through Ἀνδρέας

Andrzej has been given to 384 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #10,780 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Andrzej, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Andrzej: meaning, origin, and history

Man, through Ἀνδρέας

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Andrzej means

Andrzej belongs to the name family reached through Andrzej → Ἀνδρέας. Its meaning is “man”.

Origin, language, and formation

Andrzej is used in Polish.

Andrzej comes through Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Andrew and Ἀνδρέας.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Andrzej is pronounced /ˈan.dʐɛj/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 384 boys were recorded with the name Andrzej between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,975 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,144 in 2020 to #10,780 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,737 in 2015 to #10,780 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 Andrzej?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,780
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Andrzej 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Andrzej. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Andrzejs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Andrzej was born before 1994 — so the typical Andrzej is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
384
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Choose a decade

1990s — 21.9% of all recorded uses (84).

Is Andrzej 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
−2,429
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,364
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−43
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 1994 (22)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,975
1971

Spellings of Andrzej

Andrzej is not the most common spelling — Andrew is, with 84.5% against Andrzej's 0.02%.

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 Andrzej is used

Across 1910–2025, Andrzej was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 440,388 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2Connecticut1 in —
  3. 3New York1 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. Andrzej has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Andrzej around the world

Where Andrzej 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
    1996–2019
    #2,728
    in 2019
  • Scotland
    2021–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2007–2011
    #730
    in 2011
  • France
    1983–1983
    #2,548
    in 1983
  • Norway
    1880–1995
    #566
    in 1995
  • Canada
    2012–2012
    #2,715
    in 2012
  • South Australia
    1951–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, 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 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.

Andrzej by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,780
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,364
Best rank ever
#2,975
1971
Peak year
1994
22 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
384
Count in 2025
6

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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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