Andrew

12,747 people in the United States were counted with the surname Andrew in the 2020 census, making it the 2,751st most common in the country. That is about one person in 23,400.

By the numbers

People: 12,747
Rank: 2,751st
How common: 1 in 23,400
Per 100,000: 4.3

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

From Ancient Greek Ἀνδρέας, cognate with ἀνδρεῖος (“manly”), both from ἀνήρ (“man”).

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Andrew described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 67.4%
Black, not Hispanic 13.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 5.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 3.5%

Notable people called Andrew

Michael Andrew (born 1999)American swimmer
John Albion Andrew (1818–1867)Massachusetts governor during the Civil War
Jan Andrew (born 1943)Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medallist, former world record-holder
Andrew van der Bijl (1928–2022)Dutch Christian missionary

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

Surnames like Andrew

Also a first name

Andrew has been given to 1,334,415 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1987. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.