Andrés
The Spanish form of Andrzej, from a Greek root meaning "manly, brave". In Poland it stays rare: around 144 men carry it, and boys almost never get it now.
Andrés Pronunciation
Andrés is pronounced AHNDRÉS (/andrés/).
What Andrés means
Where Andrés comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andrés comes from the Greek Andreas, built on anér, andrós, the word for man. From that root grew the sense recorded here: manly, brave. The Spanish took the name from Saint Andrew, the fisherman apostle, and made him San Andrés, whose feast falls on the thirtieth of November.
For centuries the name traveled with sailors and farmers across the Spanish-speaking world. It stayed close to its meaning of courage without ever announcing it.
In a Polish class register, Andrés stands out among the Andrzejs. It marks a family with a Spanish thread, or parents who liked the sound. The final s gives it a different weight from the local forms.
The meaning holds simple. Andrés means brave and manly, the same thing it meant in Greek. No diminutive softens it here, no variant crowds it. Andrés means brave, and it means manly.
How many people are named Andrés
1 in 148237 men in Poland is named Andrés. 144 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2712 among male names.
Andrés's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Andrés as a middle name
Andrés is a first name for 144 men in Poland and a middle name for another 210, a 41/59 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 472nd, between Isaac (212) and Francesco (209).
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#470 Otton213
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#471 Isaac212
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#472 Andrés210
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#473 Francesco209
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#474 Jacques209