girl's name
Andrea
on-DRAY-a
- Origin Greek
- Gender Girl
- Syllables 3
- Letters 6
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 534,822
the United States
#235
2025 births
Andrea is a name meaning "manly" or "brave," from the Greek aner. It is a girls' name in France, where it ranks fifty-third, and in America, but a boys' name in Italy — one of the sharpest gender splits by country in our data.
- Andrea is a name of Greek origin.
- Peaked in 1981, when 11,840 babies were given the name.
- It has been falling over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 2,487 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1881.
- 3 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.
Andrea over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1880s | 51 |
| 1890s | 131 |
| 1900s | 185 |
| 1910s | 654 |
| 1920s | 1,249 |
| 1930s | 2,277 |
| 1940s | 17,187 |
| 1950s | 29,795 |
| 1960s | 59,493 |
| 1970s | 87,971 |
| 1980s | 99,530 |
| 1990s | 65,889 |
| 2000s | 49,555 |
| 2010s | 27,373 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 10,108 |
What Andrea means
Andrea means manly, or brave. It descends from the Greek andreios, from aner, a man, and so carries the same sense as Andrew, of which it is the feminine in most languages and the direct equivalent in Italian.
Where Andrea comes from
Andrea comes from the Greek Andreas, from aner, a man, and is the name of the first-called apostle, brother of Simon Peter and patron saint of Scotland, Greece and Russia. Italian kept Andrea as the masculine form, which is why Andrea Bocelli, Andrea Palladio and Andrea Pirlo are all men, while most other European languages built a feminine on the same stem and left the masculine as Andreas or Andre. The result is a name that reads as unambiguously female in France, Britain and America and unambiguously male in Italy, with no overlap and frequent confusion between them.
Andrea in use
Andrea ranks fifty-third in France with about 2,340 births in 2025, and our records hold more than 526,000 births across all markets with an American peak in 1981 at nearly twelve thousand in that year alone. It is now falling in the United States, at 235. The gender split by country is the most notable thing about it, and it is the clearest example in our data of a single spelling reading as male in one country and female in another.
How popular is Andrea?
In 2025, Andrea was given to 1,333 babies in the United States, ranking #235 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Andrea is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
How Andrea is spelled
Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.
| Spelling | What it is | Births on record |
|---|---|---|
| Andréa | Andréa is Andrea written with an acute accent, used in France, where it ranks #86. | 56,215 |
Names that peaked alongside Andrea
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Andrea also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Andrea over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
2 nicknames for Andrea
Each one is a name in its own right — the figure underneath is how it is doing today, so you can see which short forms are rising and which have faded.
Andrea in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
- Albanian
- Andrea
- Armenian
- Andreas
- Basque
- Andrea
- Bulgarian
- Andrea
- Catalan
- Andrea
- Croatian
- Andrea
- Czech
- Andrea
- Danish
- Andrea
- Estonian
- Andreas
- French
- Andrée
- Hungarian
- Andrea
- Italian
- Andrea
- Latin
- Andreas
- Norwegian
- Andrea
- Romansh
- Andrea
- Slovak
- Andrea
- Spanish
- Andrea
- Other forms
- Forms we hold no single language for — some are used across several, some are simply spelled differently.
- Andree
Sibling names for Andrea
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Andrea — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Andrea
What does the name Andrea mean?
Andrea means "manly" or "brave," from the Greek aner, a man.
Is Andrea a boy's or a girl's name?
It depends on the country. Female in France, Britain and America; male in Italy, where it is the direct form of Andrew.
Is Andrea related to Andrew?
Yes. Both come from the Greek Andreas.
Is Andrea still popular?
Fifty-third in France, though falling in the United States since its 1981 peak.
How many syllables are in Andrea?
Andrea has 3 syllables.
What are the nicknames for Andrea?
Andrea is usually shortened to Andi and Drea.
Is Andrea a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Andrea currently ranks #53 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.