Andy
From Greek, carrying the sense "manly, brave". Barely 160 people in Poland go by it, nearly all of them men, and it's handed out less each year.
Andy Pronunciation
Andy is pronounced AHN-dih (/ˈandɨ/).
What Andy means
Where Andy comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andy comes from Andrew, and Andrew comes from the Greek Andreas, built on andros, the word for man. Greek gave the root. The meaning that trails behind it, manly and brave, was read out of that single syllable of manhood rather than stamped on at the start.
The clipped form traveled as a nickname long before anyone used it on its own. Andy Warhol was born Andrew Warhola in Pittsburgh in 1928, and the shortened version is the one the world kept. In English the full name and the small one now live apart, and plenty of men answer only to the short one.
On a Polish class register an Andy sits oddly among the Kacpers and Szymons, an English import parked in a Polish column. A teacher reads it and pauses for half a second. The spelling alone tells you where it came from. Whatever else it picks up along the way, the name still points back to andros, and to its plain old meaning, brave.
How many people are named Andy
1 in 133414 men in Poland is named Andy. 164 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2516 among male names.
Andy's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Andy as a middle name
Andy is a first name for 164 men in Poland and a middle name for another 60, a 73/27 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 942nd, between Toni (61) and Cruz (60).
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#940 Pietro61
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#942 Andy60
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#943 Cruz60
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#944 Frédéric60