Andrea
Given to both girls and boys in Poland, though roughly two in three bearers are women. From Greek meaning "manly, brave", which sits oddly with a name most Poles have never met: only about 2,500 people carry it.
Andrea Pronunciation
Andrea is pronounced ahnd-RE-ah (/andˈrɛa/).
What Andrea means
Where Andrea comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andrea comes from Greek. Behind it stand the word anēr, andros, meaning man, and the adjective andreios, brave. The short meaning holds to that root: mężny, dzielny, manly and brave.
In Italy the name belongs to men. Andrea Palladio, the sixteenth-century architect whose villas still stand across the Veneto, carried it. So did Andrea Doria, the Genoese admiral of the same century. An Italian boy named Andrea joins that line without a second thought.
For a Polish family the name reads differently. On a class register in Poland, Andrea usually marks a girl, and the ear has settled into that. The Greek sense of courage does not shift with the reading. It sits under the girl's name and the boy's alike.
Andrea takes no Polish diminutive. It stays whole, and it means brave.
How many people are named Andrea
1 in 13238 women in Poland is named Andrea. 2,473 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #642 among female names.
Andrea's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Andrea is most popular
Andrea is most popular in Greater Poland, 235% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Silesian (+217%) and Masovian (+103%).
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Greater Poland2 girls born+235%
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Silesian2 girls born+217%
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Masovian2 girls born+103%
Andrea as a middle name
Andrea is a first name for 2,473 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,079, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 246th, between Lila (1,087) and Mirela (1,040).
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244
1,098Nadzieja
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245
1,087Lila
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2461,079Andrea
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247
1,040Mirela
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248
1,001Ksenia