Andrés

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Andrés

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Meaning

From Greek andreios 'manly'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Popular now

In the United States

87,708 babies given this name since 1880
At its height in 2001, about 1 in 747 boys
1,688 babies in 2020

Through the ages

Used by

Mexican Central American Andean Argentine Caribbean Spanish

The family of the name

Portuguese	André
Italian	Andrea

Famous bearers

Andrés Bello, Venezuelan scholar

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Where this comes from

The Hebrew Bible and the New Testament
Parish baptism registers
United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.