# Andries (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/andries/  
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 and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | not in the US data |
| Boys / girls in the US | not in the US data |
| Babies in England and Wales | 7, 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.

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 4 | 3,589 |
| 2010 | 3 | 4,678 |

## People named Andries

- Andries Noppert, Dutch association football player (born 1994)
- Andries Jonker, Dutch football manager
- Felix Andries Vening Meinesz, Dutch geophysicist (1887-1966)
- Andries Both, Dutch painter (c.1612–1642)
- Andries van Eertvelt, Flemish painter (1590-1652)
- Andries Bonger, Dutch artist and art collector (1861-1936) Johanna van Gogh-Bonger's brother and Theo van 
- Cornelis Andries Backer, Dutch botanist (1874–1963)
- Andries van Dam, Dutch-born American professor of computer science at Brown University (born 1938)
- Andries Treurnicht, former Minister of Education of South Africa (1921–1993)
- Andries Hoogerwerf, Dutch athlete ornithologist (1906-1977)
- Willem Wilmink, Dutch poet, Dutch language specialist, singer, songwriter, writer (1936–2003)
- Andrew Wouters, Dutch Catholic priest and martyr

## 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.