Andrea

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Spanish: feminine of Andrés; from Greek Andreas 'manly, masculine'

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/andɾea/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Andrea is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country, where it is the 77th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • ITItaly≈1 in 99(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 200
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 235

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 Andrea 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.

Italy (inferred from the name graph)

≈630,000 people, est.

#113 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
613 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 99 (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AndreaLatin(measured from records)
ანდრეაGeorgian(measured from records)
АндрэаCyrillic(measured from records)

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)

feminine of Andrés; from Greek Andreas 'manly, masculine'

Sources 1

  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Andrea is read(measured from records)

Andrea is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 4 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish39%

    feminine of Andrés; from Greek Andreas 'manly, masculine'

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English35%

    Feminine form of Andrew; increasingly popular in modern Ireland.

    as a nameIrish first names

    Greek; feminine form of Andrew or Andreas

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  • Hungarian5.9%

    a female given name, masculine equivalent András

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • German5.8%

    a female given name, masculine equivalent Andreas

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Andrea 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.

Where Andrea is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IT Italy#77≈630,000 est.≈1 in 993.1KAndrea228
US United States#121429,4071 in 775424KAndrea613
DE Germany#34≈310,000 est.≈1 in 262listedAndrea306
CO Colombia#8≈210,000 est.≈1 in 235—Andrea224
AR Argentina#36≈190,000 est.≈1 in 235280Andrea207
HU Hungary—90,3851 in 10890K—6
CZ Czechia—82,3021 in 13082K—6
SE Sweden#25374,664as Andreas1 in 13775KAndrea102
AT Austria#21≈44,000 est.≈1 in 20026KAndrea184

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; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Andrea is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Hungarian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Andréa, Ändrëä, Andrèä, Ándréá, Andreä

  • Italian given name52 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Italian, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Andreas, Andrea'S, Andréa, Andréas, Andrèa

  • Croatian given name37 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Czechia, United States, Slovakia

    Languages: Croatian, Czech, Polish

    Also written Андреа, Андрея, Andreya, Andréa, Andreâ

  • a separate name13 spellings in the group

    Also written ́andréa, Andreá, Ãndrea, Ândrea, Andrèa

  • English given name112 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Laos, United Kingdom, Thailand

    Languages: English, Lao, Thai

    Also written Andria, Andrey, Antria, Adria, แอนเดรีย

  • Portuguese given name131 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Romania

    Languages: Portuguese, English, Russian

    Also written Andreia, Andréia, Andreea, Андрея, Андреа

112 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Andrea is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Of disputed origin. It has been in use since the 17th century, although never common. It is now generally taken as a feminine equivalent of Andreas, and this probably represents its actual origin. However, it was not in use in the Middle Ages, and the suggestion has also been made that it represents a coinage in English from the Greek vocabulary word andreia ‘manliness’, ‘virility’. 4 Sir

    as a nameA concise dictionary of first names

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)

1400160018002000Andrea del Verrocchio, b. 1435Andrea Palladio, b. 1508Benito Mussolini, b. 1883Giorgos Papandreou, b. 1952Andrea Benetti, b. 1964Andrea Ghez, b. 1965Andrea Di Stefano, b. 1972Andrea Pirlo, b. 1979Andrea Barzagli, b. 1981Andrea Meza, b. 1994

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHola Andrea,Hi Andrea, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 153 sources across 71 countries.

Official registers attesting Andrea
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020424K#107
HU HungaryNyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025)202590K#8
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—82K#57
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—41K#66
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—11K#371
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20248.1K#330
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.3K#107
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20204.7K—
IT ItalyISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend)20243.1K#10

Reference works 10

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

Is Andrea a male or female name?
Andrea is a female 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.
How do you pronounce Andrea?
A machine transcription gives /andɾea/ (IPA) for Spanish.
What does the name Andrea mean, and where does it come from?
feminine of Andrés; from Greek Andreas 'manly, masculine' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
In which country does Andrea have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 631 thousand people named Andrea in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled andrea.
What are other forms of the name Andrea?
In the etymology graph, Andrés and Andreja are forms of the same name in other languages.
How common is the name Andrea?
In the United States, the national register counted 429,407 people named Andrea in 2020, about 1 in 775 residents.
How common is Andrea compared with other names?
In Italy, Andrea is the 77th most common given name of 102,667 given names recorded there.

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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, “Andrea” — the 77th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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