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andreas Name Meaning and History

Greek; also German and Dutch: from the New Testament Greek name Andreas, which gave rise to Andrew in English and vernacular derivatives in almost every other European language. Etymologically, it is from Greek andreios ‘manly’, from aner ‘man’, ‘male’ (genitive andros). It was the name of the first of Christ’s disciples, and is a Greek translation of an Aramaic original. The disciple is the patron saint of both Scotland and Russia, but the Scottish Anderson is far more common than its Russian equivalent, Andreev. The personal name was popular throughout Europe in various vernacular forms (for example, Italian Andrea, French André, Scottish, North German, and Scandinavian Anders, Dutch Andries, Hungarian András, Czech Ondrej, Slovak Ondrej, Polish Andrzej and Jedrzej, and Russian Andrei).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of andreas Families in the US in 1920
Number of andreas families
 32-62
 11-31		 1-10
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Andreas in IA and MN Karen Duffy 1
Andreas in IA, MN, MI wolnduffy 1
Edwin F. Burge msjaci1977 0
ANDREAS-ANDRES in Lehigh County, PA wiemers_1 3
Andreas/Andrews Family arrive Bay City, Michigan @1850-1854 jamesmichael50 0
Andreas or Andress LauraRouse75 0
Ludwig Andreas descendants John Knouse 2
Christoph Theodor ANDREAS from Germany JeanneTrump58 0
Conrad Andreas>Illinois>1870 Lewis Lundy 2
Andreas Ancestry Melissa Sarah Andreas 17
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