# André (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/andre/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | French |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈɑːndɹeɪ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | Dre |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 132,861 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 130,656 / 2,205 (2% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,654, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 15 | 5,982 |
| 1996 | 16 | 5,784 |
| 1997 | 13 | 6,870 |
| 1998 | 19 | 5,380 |
| 1999 | 10 | 8,851 |
| 2000 | 12 | 8,071 |
| 2001 | 7 | 12,185 |
| 2002 | 11 | 8,889 |
| 2003 | 6 | 13,993 |
| 2004 | 8 | 11,711 |
| 2005 | 10 | 10,186 |
| 2006 | 5 | 17,382 |
| 2007 | 7 | 14,049 |
| 2016 | 5 | 16,462 |
| 2018 | 8 | 11,505 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,495 | 240 |
| 2012 | 1,461 | 251 |
| 2013 | 1,322 | 268 |
| 2014 | 1,282 | 280 |
| 2015 | 1,327 | 279 |
| 2016 | 1,400 | 257 |
| 2017 | 1,373 | 264 |
| 2018 | 1,292 | 274 |
| 2019 | 1,181 | 290 |
| 2020 | 1,193 | 282 |
| 2021 | 1,172 | 291 |
| 2022 | 1,167 | 294 |
| 2023 | 1,068 | 309 |
| 2024 | 966 | 350 |
| 2025 | 868 | 368 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 82 | 458 |
| 2012 | 66 | 549 |
| 2013 | 73 | 508 |
| 2014 | 73 | 520 |
| 2015 | 80 | 489 |
| 2016 | 98 | 428 |
| 2017 | 100 | 429 |
| 2018 | 75 | 520 |
| 2019 | 67 | 561 |
| 2020 | 58 | 611 |
| 2021 | 64 | 592 |
| 2022 | 65 | 577 |
| 2023 | 47 | 719 |
| 2024 | 62 | 613 |
| 2025 | 47 | 735 |

## People named André

- André Gide, French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)
- Andre Agassi, American tennis player
- André Malraux, French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
- André Breton, French writer and poet, co-founder of Surrealism (1896–1966)
- André Maurois, French author (1885–1967)
- André Schürrle, German association football player (born 1990)
- André Chénier, French poet
- André Derain, French painter and engraver (1880–1954)
- André Frédéric Cournand, French physiologist (1895–1988)
- André Sogliuzzo, American voice actor
- André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect and the principal gardener of King Louis XIV of France (1613–17
- André Citroën, French businessman (1878-1935)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.