Andrei
Andrei was given to 53 boys in 2025, #2,517 among boys’ names; 3,095 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,970 Americans named Andrei and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Andrei by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Andrei mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Andrei is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Андре́й (Andréj), equivalent to Andrew.”
/ˈɑːndɹeɪ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Andrei?
#2,517 among boys’ names, 2025
Andrei fell from #1,931 in 2015 to #2,517 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.1 to 31.0 per million.
119 babies in 2006, the peak
Andrei peaked in 2006, when 119 boys were given it, #1,361 among boys’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #2,517 | 31.0 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,237 | 37.1 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,316 | 35.1 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,000 | 43.5 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,724 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,268 | 34.8 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,021 | 40.1 |
| 2018 | 70 | #2,048 | 38.5 |
| 2017 | 74 | #1,938 | 40.0 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,113 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 75 | #1,931 | 39.1 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,062 | 35.4 |
| 2013 | 87 | #1,695 | 46.0 |
| 2012 | 85 | #1,756 | 44.8 |
| 2011 | 84 | #1,737 | 44.2 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,565 | 52.6 |
| 2009 | 113 | #1,471 | 57.0 |
| 2008 | 112 | #1,467 | 54.9 |
| 2007 | 95 | #1,622 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 119 | #1,361 | 57.9 |
| 2005 | 87 | #1,583 | 43.6 |
| 2004 | 94 | #1,458 | 47.4 |
| 2003 | 96 | #1,390 | 48.6 |
| 2002 | 77 | #1,586 | 39.7 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,776 | 32.4 |
| 2000 | 56 | #1,871 | 28.5 |
| 1999 | 59 | #1,730 | 30.7 |
| 1998 | 39 | #2,273 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 38 | #2,228 | 20.2 |
| 1996 | 43 | #2,014 | 22.7 |
| 1995 | 38 | #2,136 | 20.0 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,009 | 21.2 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,291 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 32 | #2,303 | 16.0 |
| 1991 | 26 | #2,607 | 12.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,167 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 32 | #2,151 | 16.0 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,600 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 17 | #2,946 | 9.1 |
| 1986 | 20 | #2,600 | 10.9 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,946 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 20 | #2,437 | 11.1 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,077 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,597 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,036 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 19 | #2,538 | 10.7 |
| 1979 | 20 | #2,383 | 11.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,671 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 20 | #2,273 | 12.2 |
| 1976 | 16 | #2,605 | 10.2 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,755 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 22 | #1,989 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,313 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 21 | #1,973 | 13.0 |
| 1971 | 22 | #1,917 | 12.4 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,742 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 23 | #1,730 | 12.9 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,736 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,856 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,466 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,368 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 11 | #2,548 | 5.5 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,202 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,038 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 14 | #2,242 | 6.6 |
| 1960 | 17 | #1,973 | 8.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,534 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 5 | #3,966 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,566 | 2.8 |
| 1955 | 12 | #2,302 | 5.8 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,208 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 11 | #2,395 | 5.6 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,155 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,500 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | #2,611 | 5.1 |
| 1948 | 5 | #3,696 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Andrei a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Andrei has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Andrei: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Andrei, and how old are they?
2,970 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,095 Americans ever recorded as Andrei. The median Andrei alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 7,471 people named Andrei (64 women and girls, 7,407 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 117 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 253 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 386 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 912 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Andrei born?
The states with the most babies named Andrei are California, Texas and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,838 | 1.5× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,088 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,637 | 0.9× |
Where Andrei is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Andrei is most over-represented in California: since 1948 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Andrei with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 144,430 babies since 1880, Andrei is the second most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 1,010 babies (5.2%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Andrei
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Andrei and names like it
- Compare Andrei and AndreBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAndrei peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Andrei since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Andrei.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Andrei alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.