Andrea - Meaning of Andrea

What does Andrea mean?

[ 3 syll. an-drea, and-r-ea ] The baby boy name Andrea is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is aeNDREYah or AENDRiyah in English or aaNDREHaa in German †. Andrea is used predominantly in the Italian language and its origin is Old Greek. Andrea is a variant of the name Andrew (English, Greek, and Russian).

Andrea is an uncommon baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1976, 0.011% of baby boys were given the name Andrea. It ranked at #599 then. The baby name has since steeply declined in popularity, and is currently of infrequent use. In 2011, within the group of boy names directly linked to Andrea, Andrew was the most popular. In the past century Andrea has mostly been a girl name. In 1989, the name Andrea was given to 68 times as many girls than boys.

Baby names that sound like Andrea include Aindriú, Amador, Amadore, Amidar, Amidror, Amintor, Amyntor, Andery, Andreo, Andreu, Andria, Andrie, Antara, Antero, Amintore, Anamitra, Andar, Ander, Andor, and Andra.

† Pronunciation for Andrea: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; D as in "day (D.EY)" ; R as in "race (R.EY.S)" ; EY as in "ate (EY.T)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AH as in "mud (M.AH.D)" ; AA as in "odd (AA.D)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)"

A famous person named Andrea is Andrea Casiraghi, Royalty, born 8 June 1984.