Andrew is the English form from the Old French name Andreu / Andrieu (now French surnames), themselves from Latin Andreas, from Greek-derived given name Andreas (Greek: Ἀνδρέας). It is related to Ancient Greek: ἀνήρ/ἀνδρός aner/andros, "man" (as opposed to "woman"), thus meaning "manly" and, as consequence, "brave", "strong", "courageous", and "warrior".
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Variants by language
Masculine
Ander (Basque)
Anders (Danish, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Swedish)
Andi (Albanian, Indonesian)
Andis, Andijs, Andrejs, Andris, Andžejs, Anžejs, Endijs (Latvian)
Andrai (Ziyadi)
András, Endre (Hungarian)
Andarāwus (Arabic)
Andraž (Slovene)
André (Canadian, Catalan, Corsican, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Latin, Luxembourgish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish)
Andrea (Albanian, Italian, Latin)
Andreas (Armenian, Cypriot Greek, Danish, German, Greek, Norwegian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Swedish, Turkish, Welsh)
Andrei/Andrey (Romanian, Belarusian, Russian)
Andrej (Croatian, Slovak, Slovene)
Andreja, Andrija (Croatian, Montenegrin, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene)
Andrėjus, Andrius (Lithuanian)
Andres (Estonian, Norwegian)
Andrés (Spanish)
Andreu (Catalan, Spanish, German, French)
Andries (Dutch, Afrikaans)
Andrii, Andriy (Ukrainian)
Andros (Greek)
Andrzej, Jędrzej (Polish)
Antero, Antti (Finnish)
Ondřej (Czech)
Ondrej (Slovak)
Feminine
Andrea (worldwide)
Andréia (Portuguese)
Andréanne, Andréane, Andrée (French)
Andreea (Romanian)
Andreina (Italian)
Andreja (Croatian, Slovene)
Andrijana (Macedonian, Serbian)
Surnames derived from the name and its variants
Czech surnames
Antonín Kotík lists the following Czech surnames derived from the name: Ondřej, Ondřejc, Vondřejec, Ondřejek, Ondřejk, Vondřejk, Ondřík, Ondrejk, Ondrejka, Ondříček, Ondřejíček, Ondra, Vondra, Vondrů, Vondrovic, Vondrovec, Onderka, Onderek, Ondrák, Vondrák, Vůndrák, Vondráč, Vondráček, Ondráš, Ondrášek, Vondrášek, Vondrouš, Vondroušek, Ondroušek, Vondruška, Vondrys, Vondrejs, Vondřejš, Vondrysek, Ondřiska, Ondřich, Vondřich, Vondřech, Vondrych, Ondrouch, Ondrách, Ondříšek, Oneš, Voneš, Vonáš, Vonášek, Vonásek, Vonka, Vonáček, Voňátko, Ondok, Vondulka, Andreáš, Andres, Andrýs, Endrys, Andrejs, Andrejš, Andrysek, Andrejsek, Andresík, Andreska, Vandruška, Andráško, Andrášek, Andrysák, Andrs, Endrs, Endrst, Endršt, Andr, Andrt, Andrák, Anděra, Anderka, Andriál, Andrle, Andrdle, Endrle, Endlíček, Andrlík, Andys, Endyš, Endrej, Jendrûlek, Povondra.
Also: Ondráček, Ondrík.
French surnames
André; North, Normandy and Occitanie : Andrieu, Andrieux; North : Andrez; East : Andrey; Limousin : Andreix; North, Occitanie : Andreu.
East and West Slavic surnames
Andreyev, Andrienko, Androsov, Andrusak, Andrușceac (Romanian spelling) Andrushchak, Andruszak, Andruszczak, Andruszkiewicz, Andruszkow, Andrusov
South Slavic surnames
Andrejević, Andrejić, Andreychin, Andrijević, Andrić, Androić