Andrew
Barely 1,400 men in Poland carry the English spelling Andrew, and newborns almost never get it now: most Poles will never meet one. At root it's Greek, from a word meaning "manly".
Andrew Pronunciation
Andrew is pronounced AHND-ref (/ˈandrɛf/).
What Andrew means
Where Andrew comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andrew comes from the Greek Andreas, built on andros, the word for man. The old sense was manly, masculine, and that meaning has stayed close to the name. In Greek it marked a person as strong, fit for the rough business of men.
The name traveled west through the church. Andrew the Apostle, a fisherman and the brother of Peter, gave it a firm footing across Christian Europe, and English speakers took to it early. He became the patron saint of Scotland, which helped fix the name in both England and the north. By the late medieval period it was ordinary in villages on either side of that border.
In a Polish school register the English Andrew now sits among other borrowed names, its Greek root half hidden by the spelling. The meaning holds. Mężny, dzielny, a person weighed by courage rather than by looks. Whatever a child grows into, the name still points back to andros, to man.
How many people are named Andrew
1 in 14959 men in Poland is named Andrew. 1,427 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #812 among male names.
Andrew's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Andrew is most popular
Andrew is most popular in Masovian, 510% above the national average (3 boys born 2019–2025).
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Masovian3 boys born+510%
Andrew as a middle name
Andrew is a first name for 1,427 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,447, a 50/50 split — almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 194th, between Emilian (1,477) and Jeremi (1,424).
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192
1,494Patrick
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193
1,477Emilian
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1941,447Andrew
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195
1,424Jeremi
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196
1,406Richard