Andrey
A Russian form of Andrew, from the Greek for "manly, brave". In Poland it stays rare: most people here have never met one, and the handful born in recent years were all boys.
Andrey Pronunciation
Andrey is pronounced ahnd-RE-ih (/andˈrɛɨ/).
What Andrey means
Where Andrey comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Andrey comes from the Greek Andreas, built on andreios, meaning manly, and behind it stands aner, the Greek word for man. The short meaning has stayed close to that root. Manly, and by extension brave. The first well-known bearer was the apostle Andrew, a fisherman from Galilee, whose name carried the Greek sense of courage eastward into Slavic speech.
In Russia the name took hold as Andrey. It belongs to soldiers and scholars, and to Prince Andrei Bolkonsky, the restless hero of Tolstoy's War and Peace. Russians set the stress on the second syllable, an-DREY.
On a Polish class register the spelling Andrey marks a family with an eastern tie, a Russian or Ukrainian thread behind the roll call. The bearer answers to a name that has meant, since its Greek beginning, mężny: manly and brave.
How many people are named Andrey
1 in 21760 men in Poland is named Andrey. 984 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #971 among male names.
Andrey's popularity over time
0 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Where Andrey is most popular
Andrey is most popular in Lesser Poland, 281% above the national average (2 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+266%).
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Lesser Poland2 boys born+281%
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Masovian3 boys born+266%
Andrey as a middle name
Andrey is a first name for 984 men in Poland and a middle name for another 45, a 96/4 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1144th, between Zdobysław (46) and Christiaan (45).
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1142
46Vito
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1143
46Zdobysław
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114445Andrey
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1145
45Christiaan
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1146
45Domenico