Andre

Where Andre comes from

The dictionaries list Andre as a given name — a male given name from French, an anglicized form of André — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • French
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #809 among boys — 6 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1958
    Andre Geim born
    Russian-born Dutch-British physicist
  3. 1970
    Andre Agassi born
    American tennis player
  4. 1984
    Peak, #119
    2,316 babies named Andre — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #309.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from French, an anglicized form of André.
Namesakes
  • Andre Agassi · American tennis player, born 1970
  • Andre Geim · Russian-born Dutch-British physicist, born 1958
  • Andre Iguodala · American basketball player, born 1984
  • Andre De Grasse · Canadian sprinter, born 1994
  • Andre Braugher · American actor, 1962–2023

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.