Andrew
Meaning of Andrew
Andrew is the English form of the Greek name Andreas, which comes from andreios, meaning "manly" or "masculine," and ultimately from anēr (genitive andros), "man." Standard name dictionaries agree on this derivation. The name entered English through the Latin Andreas and has been common in the Christian world since late antiquity.
It is pronounced AN-droo (/ˈændruː/), the same in American and British English.
Its best-known religious association is Saint Andrew, one of the twelve apostles and the brother of Simon Peter; tradition holds that he was crucified on an X-shaped cross, the St Andrew's cross, and he is the patron saint of Scotland. Among modern namesakes, Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish American steel magnate and philanthropist, and Andrew Lloyd Webber, the composer of long-running musicals, are widely known.
In the United States, Andrew was among the most common boys' names in the late 1980s and 1990s. Its highest rank was No. 5, reached in 1988, and the largest annual count was 36,206 in 1987. It has declined since: in 2025 it ranked No. 73, given to 4,497 babies.
Pronunciation
English
- Pronunced as AN-droo (/ˈændruː/)
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Notable People Named Andrew
| Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish American industrialist and philanthropist who led the late 19th century expansion of the American steel industry and became one of the richest Americans. |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer and musical theatre impresario known for long running West End and Broadway hits, with 21 musicals plus a song cycle, a set of variations, two film scores, and a Latin Requiem Mass. |
| Andrew Yang is an American businessman, attorney, lobbyist, political commentator, and author who founded the Forward Party in 2021 and co-chairs it with Christine Todd Whitman and Michael S. Willner. |
| Andrew Garfield is an English and American actor who broke out with Boy A, gained international attention in The Social Network, and is best known for playing Spider-Man. |
| Andrew Stefan McCutchen is an American MLB outfielder and DH for the Pittsburgh Pirates who previously played for the Giants, Yankees, Phillies, and Brewers and helped Team USA win its first World Baseball Classic title in 2017. |
| Andrew Wyeth was a leading mid 20th century American painter who, despite calling himself an abstractionist, became known for realist regional scenes of Pennsylvania and Maine. |
| Andrew Wegman Bird is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter known for looped violin and whistling, whose career runs from 1990s jazz groups and Bowl of Fire to genre-spanning solo albums and a 2020 Grammy nomination. |
| Andrew Jackson Young Jr. is an American civil rights leader and statesman who, after working closely with Martin Luther King Jr., served as a US congressman from Georgia, UN ambassador in the Carter administration, and mayor of Atlanta, becoming the first African American elected to Congress from Georgia since Reconstruction. |
| Andrew Marr is a British journalist, author, and broadcaster who began at The Scotsman, edited The Independent, and served as BBC News political editor. |
| Andrew Luke McLeod is a former Australian rules footballer for the Adelaide Football Club and holds the club games record with 340 matches. |
| Andrew Greeley - Andrew M. Greeley was an American Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist, and novelist who taught at the University of Arizona and the University of Chicago and served as a research associate at NORC. |
| Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum is an American born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. |
