André
Greek at root, carrying the sense "manly, brave," worn here in its French spelling. It stays rare in Poland: fewer than 500 men answer to it, and the newborns have all but stopped.
André Pronunciation
André is pronounced AHNDRÉ (/andré/).
What André means
Where André comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
André begins in Greek. The name grows from andreios, "manly, brave," and behind it sits anēr, the ordinary Greek word for a man. Courage was there from the start, folded into the grammar.
The oldest André on record is the apostle Andrew, Andreas in Greek, a fisherman from the shore of Galilee and a brother of Peter. From there the name moved west. French speakers made it their own, settled on the spelling André, and kept it. The painter André Derain carried it, and so did the writer André Gide, who won the Nobel Prize in 1947. The accent over the e stayed put.
In a Polish school register, one André sits among the Andrzejs and Piotrs.
The meaning holds: mężny, dzielny, manly and brave.
How many people are named André
1 in 44845 men in Poland is named André. 476 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1350 among male names.
André's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
André as a middle name
André is a first name for 476 men in Poland and a middle name for another 383, a 55/45 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 360th, between January (384) and Apoloniusz (383).
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#358 Zbysław388
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#360 André383
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#361 Apoloniusz383
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