Andrew
Sign in to saveAndrew is the English form from the Old French name Andreu / Andrieu (now French surnames), themselves from Latin Andreas, from Greek-derived given name Andreas (). It is related to aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.
Key facts
- Given name.name
- Andrew
- Given name.image
- Andreas San Giovanni in Laterano 2006-09-07.jpg
- Given name.caption
- Saint Andrew
- Given name.gender
- Male
- Given name.meaning
- manly, strong and brave
- Given name.name day
- November 30
- Given name.region
- Greece
- Given name.languageorigin
- Greek
- Given name.related names
- Ander, Andros, Anders, Anderson, André, Andrei, Andreu, Andris, Andrius, Andrejs, Andrzej, Jędrzej, Andriy, Andrea, Andreas, Andrés, Ondřej, Ondrej, Andrean, An
- Given name.nickname
- Andy, Drew, Dru
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- Commons category
- Andrew (given name)
- native label
- Andrew
- Soundex
- A536
- Cologne phonetics
- 06273
- Caverphone
- ANTR11
- Latvian transcription
- Endrū
- P8168
- Dentalium
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- Variants by language
- Masculine
- Feminine
- {{anchor|Andrew-surname}}Surnames derived from the name and its variants
- Czech surnames
- French surnames
- East and West Slavic surnames
- South Slavic surnames
- See also
- References
Andrew is the English form from the Old French name Andreu / Andrieu (now French surnames), themselves from Latin Andreas, from Greek-derived given name Andreas (). It is related to aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior". In the King James Bible, the Greek "Ἀνδρέας" is translated as Andrew.
== Variants by language == ===Masculine=== Aindrea, Aindreas, Anndra (Scottish Gaelic) Aindréas, Aindréis, Aindriú (Irish) Ander (Basque) Änder (Luxembourgish) Anders (Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish) Andi (Albanian) Andis, Andijs, Andrejs, Andris, Andžejs, Anžejs, Endijs (Latvian) András, Endre (Hungarian) Andras (Welsh) Andraž (Slovene) André (Canadian, Catalan, Corsican, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin, Luxembourgish, Polish, Portuguese), Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish Andrea (Albanian, Italian, Latin) Andreas (Armenian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh) Andrei, Andrey (Romanian, Belarusian, Russian) Andrej (Croatian, Slovak, Slovene) Andreja, Andrija (Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene) Andrėjus, Andrius (Lithuanian) Andres (Estonian, Norwegian) Andrés (Spanish) Andreu (Catalan, Spanish, German, French) Andreus (Latin) Andri (Icelandic, Romansh) Andria (Sardinian) Andries (Dutch, Afrikaans) Andrii, Andriy (Ukrainian) Andros (Greek) Andrzej, Jędrzej (Polish) Antero, Antti (Finnish) Ondřej (Czech) Ondrej (Slovak)