Andrei
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Andrei is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 12th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.
- MDMoldova1 in 47(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 48as Андрей
- BYBelarus≈1 in 63as Андрей
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Andrei itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #16 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 557 (measured from records)
- 1 in 47 (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900,000 named Андрей, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Андрей in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Andre in US United States, BR Brazil, Андрій in UA Ukraine and Andrzej in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Andrei counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #12 | ≈2,900,000 est. | ≈1 in 48 | #10 | Андрей | 297 |
| US United States | #195 | 1,075,513as Andrew | 1 in 309 | 1.1M | Andre | 557 |
| UA Ukraine | #18 | ≈660,000 est. | ≈1 in 66 | listed | Андрій | 167 |
| BR Brazil | #24 | 559,511as Andre | 1 in 378 | 584K | Andre | 264 |
| PL Poland | #6 | 513,751as Andrzej | 1 in 75 | 523K | Andrzej | 238 |
| BY Belarus | #9 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 63 | 100 | Андрей | 106 |
| MD Moldova | #29 | 72,195 | 1 in 47 | 72K | Andrej | 62 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Andrei is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Andrei och Andrej är rumänska och slaviska former av → Andreas.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Italian, var. regional set. de Andrea
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In German, Latinisierte Patronym-/Genitivform zu Andreas; eher fremder Familienname, analog zu anderen latinisierenden Formen. Morphemmuster: lat. Genitiv/-ae, mit Kurz- und Analogiebildungen. Belegt mit 70 Trägern.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
In German, Form zu Andreas; Variante mit -i/-y als Schreibung. 70 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen
Russian form of ANDREW . St Andrew is the patron saint of Russia as well as of Greece and Scotland.
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Andrei Rublevb. 1360RUmedieval Russian artist (1360s-1428)
- Andrei Markovb. 1856RURussian mathematician
- Andrei Zhdanovb. 1896UASoviet politician (1896-1948)
- Andrey Nikolaevich Kolmogorovb. 1903RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1903–1987)
- Andrei Andreyevich Gromykob. 1909BYSoviet diplomat
- Andrei Sakharovb. 1921RUSoviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist (1921–1989)
- Andrei Tarkovskyb. 1932RUSoviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)
- Andrei Karlovb. 1954RUSoviet and Russian diplomat
- Andre Geimb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameRussian-born Dutch-British physicist
- Andrei Arshavinb. 1981RURussian association football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 72K | #6 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 42K | #887 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 38K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 37K | #702 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 18K | #136 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 17K | #139 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7.4K | #2,998 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1K | #702 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 64 | #2,998 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 53 | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Andrei mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Andrei?
- In the etymology graph, Andrew, Andres and Andre are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Andrei have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 million people named Андрей in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Andrei most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Andrei is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 47 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Andrei?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 72,195 people named Andrei, about 1 in 47 residents.
- How common is Andrei compared with other names?
- In Russia, Andrei is the 12th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
- Is Andrei a male or female name?
- Andrei is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/andreiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Andrei” — the 12th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.