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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.

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

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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)

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