Andrei
Andrei is a boy name of Romanian origin, meaning Manly and brave.
What Andrei means
Manly and brave.
Andrei sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Andrei comes from
Romanian names sit on a Latin base with Slavic and Orthodox layers on top, which gives the language both classical and Slavic forms of the same name.
Andrei is recorded as Romanian in origin. Browse other Romanian names.
How popular is Andrei?
Andrei sits outside the top 100 boy names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Andrei
We group Andrei under Brave. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Brave
Names like Andrei
These share Andrei's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Anders — Manly, brave.
- Andreas — Manly, brave.
- Andres — Manly, brave.
- Andrew — Manly and brave.
- Arash — Hero; bright.
- Archie — Truly bold and brave.
- Everett — Brave as a wild boar.
- Finn — Fair, white; the legendary hero Fionn.
- Isamu — Courage, bravery.
- Leonardo — Brave as a lion.
- Wyatt — Brave in war.
- Bernard — Brave as a bear.