Andreas
Andreas is a boy's name that peaked in 2006, when it was the 889th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,276th. About 8,200 Andreases are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 24.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Andreas boys named Andreas
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,679
- Estimated living today
- 8,200
- Median age today
- 24
- Peak year
- 2006
- Best rank
- 889th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,276th
- First recorded
- 1913
- Girls / boys
- 49 / 8,630
How old the living Andreases are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,679 babies given the name since 1913, about 8,200 are alive — 94 in every hundred. Roughly 2,900 of them are children and 150 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2001 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
From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέᾱς, cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (“manly”), both from ἀνήρ (“man”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Andreass
- Andreas Vesalius (1515–1564)Flemish anatomist, physician and author
- Andreas Brehme (1960–2024)German association football player
- Andreas Christensen (born 1996)Danish association football player
- Andreas Kaplan (born 1977)German economist, dean, university rector; higher education expert; edtech; social media; artificial intelligence
- Andreas Papandreou (1919–1996)Greek economist and politician
- Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761–1818)Baltic German general
- Andreas Möller (born 1967)German footballer
- Andreas Köpke (born 1962)German footballer
People named Andreas with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Andreas is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Andreas is most concentrated in California (2.5×), New York (2.4×), Florida (2.0×), Washington (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2006
The most popular boys’ names the year Andreas peaked:
Andreas elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria boys | Andreas | 25,415 | 4th |
| Norway boys | Andreas | 21,923 | 2nd |
| Denmark boys | Andreas | 16,219 | 8th |
| France boys | Andreas +3 spellings | 4,975 | 360th |
| Sweden boys | Andreas | 2,774 | 25th |
| Belgium boys | Andreas +1 spelling | 2,289 | 126th |
| England and Wales boys | Andreas | 1,571 | 552nd |
| Switzerland boys | Andreas | 1,059 | 70th |
| Italy boys | Andreas | 1,020 | — |
| Poland boys | Andreas | 195 birth registrations | 177th |
| Ireland boys | Andreas | 69 | 435th |
| France girls | Andreas +1 spelling | 45 | 4,262nd |
| Scotland boys | Andreas | 34 | 533rd |
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.
Andreas: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Andreas | 948 | 0.076% | 55th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Andreas | 90 | 0.021% | 259th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Andreas | 20 | 0.031% | 97th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Andreas | 1 | 0.027% | 10th |
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, Andreas is most concentrated in Appenzell Ausserrhoden, where 0.33% of children were given it – 38 of them.
Andreas: rank by region
In 2025, Andreas was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Andreas | 91 | 61 |
| Wallonia | Andreas | 461 | 5 |
In 2025, Andreas was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolnośląskie | Andreas | 243 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Andreas appears in the lists for Province of Flemish Brabant (57th), Province of Limburg (89th), Province of West Flanders (89th), Province of Antwerp (99th) and Province of East Flanders (106th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, 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.
Andreas by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 35 | 323rd |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Andreas 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.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Andreas | 13,642 | 35,835 |
| Finland boys | Andreas +1 spelling | 1,671 | 5,879 |
| the Netherlands girls | Andreas | — | 536 |
| Finland girls | Andreas | — | 7 |
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 Andreas lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 1,184 men called Andreas 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
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Andreas | 134 | 0.215 | 405 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Andreas | 105 | 0.197 | 509 |
| Palmas, Las | Andreas | 89 | 0.153 | 626 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Andreas | 109 | 0.108 | 739 |
| Málaga | Andreas | 71 | 0.081 | 738 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Andreas | 21 | 0.067 | 967 |
Listed in 29 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 23 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.
Related names
Andreas against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.