Macandrew
surname · Latin script
Meaning: son of Andrew; first attested Donald Makandro 1502 Black
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məkændɹu/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Macandrew is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country.
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 354K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 359K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 363K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 354K (inferred from the name graph)
≈180 people, est.
Highest-authority source
New Zealand, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
son of Andrew; first attested Donald Makandro 1502 Black
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Macandrew 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 359K | — | Macandrew | 84 |
| US United States | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 2.5M | listed | Macandrew | 86 |
| AU Australia | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Macandrew | 44 |
| CA Canada | ≈66 est. | ≈1 in 570K | — | Macandrew | 42 |
| IT Italy | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Macandrew | 2 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Macandrew | 17 |
| PY Paraguay | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 918K | — | Macandrew | 1 |
| PL Poland | 3 | 1 in 13M | 3 | — | — |
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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Robert MacAndrewb. 1802GBBritish merchant and naturalist (1802-1873)
- James Macandrewb. 1819NZNew Zealand politician
- Henry Cockburn Macandrewb. 1832Scottish solicitor and provost of Inverness (1832–1898)
- Henry John Milnes MacAndrewb. 1866British Indian Army general (1866–1919)
- Charles MacAndrew, 1st Baron MacAndrewb. 1888GBBritish politician (1888-1979)
- James Orr MacAndrewb. 1899GBBritish politician (1889-1979)
- Hector MacAndrewb. 1903GBBritish musician (1903–1980)
- Craig MacAndrewb. 1928USresearcher who developed MacAndrew alcoholism scale
- Armand MacAndrewb. 1972SRSurinamese football player
- James Grant MacandrewGBBritish photographer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #273,606 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Macandrew mean, and where does it come from?
- son of Andrew; first attested Donald Makandro 1502 Black Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Macandrew?
- A machine transcription gives /məkændɹu/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Macandrew have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 183 people named Macandrew in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled macandrew.
- How common is the name Macandrew?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3 people named Macandrew in 2026, about 1 in 13 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/macandrewThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Macandrew”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.