Andrea

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Andrea boys named Andrea

By the numbers

Total US births

451,448

Estimated living today

418,000

Median age today

42

Peak year

1981

Best rank

24th

Rank in 2025

235th

First recorded

1881

Girls / boys

445,419 / 6,029

How old the living Andreas are

born that year still alive today

Of the 451,448 babies given the name since 1881, about 418,000 are alive — 93 in every hundred. Roughly 46,000 of them are children and 39,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1983 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Ancient Greek

Latinate feminine form of Andreas and Andrew.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Andreas

• Andrea Bocelli (born 1958)Italian tenor and singer-songwriter
• Andrea Pirlo (born 1979)Italian association football player and manager
• Andrea Palladio (1508–1580)Italian architect
• Andrea M. Ghez (born 1965)American astronomer
• Andrea Mantegna (1431–1506)Italian Renaissance painter
• Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488)15th century Italian sculptor, goldsmith and painter (c.1435-1488)
• Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530)Italian painter
• Andrea Barzagli (born 1981)Italian association football player

People named Andrea with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Andrea is most common

• CA67,440
• TX40,672
• NY33,644
• IL22,468
• OH19,298
• PA19,149
• MI18,957
• FL16,717
• NJ12,188
• MA11,482

Relative to how many babies each state records, Andrea is most concentrated in Nevada (1.6×), Arizona (1.6×), New Mexico (1.5×), California (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1981

The most popular girls’ names the year Andrea peaked:

• Jennifer
• Jessica
• Amanda
• Sarah
• Melissa
• Amy

All the names of 1981

Andrea elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Andrea: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Andrea is most concentrated in Ticino, where 0.73% of children were given it – 457 of them.

Andrea: rank by region

In 2025, Andrea was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2008, Andrea was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2024, Andrea was among the 10 most common names in 9 regions of Italy. It has come first somewhere in 14 different years.

In 2022, Andrea was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2024, with the country taken in 5 parts rather than 21, Andrea appears in the lists for Isole (6th) and Sud (7th).

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Andrea appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (Andrea, 10th), Province of Liège (Andrea, 35th), Province of Walloon Brabant (Andrea, 64th), Province of Namur (Andrea, 66th), Province of Hainaut (Andréa, 72nd), Brussels-Capital Region (Andrea, 104th), Province of Liège (Andréa, 106th) and Province of Limburg (Andrea, 109th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Andrea by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Andrea among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Andrea lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,043 men called Andrea and 110,011 women called Andrea were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 30 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 22 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Andrew
• Andre
• Andres
• Andy
• Anderson
• Andria
• Andreas
• Andra
• Andi
• Anders
• Andie
• Ander

Andrea against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Andrea vs Andrew
• Andrea vs Andre
• Andrea vs Andres
• Andrea vs Andy
• Andrea vs Anderson
• Andrea vs Andria

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