Is Andrea a male or female name?
Andrea is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 79%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 96%
- Sample size
- 645,331
- Confidence
- high
Andrea by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 99% | 450,034 | ssa |
| Spain ES | female | 97% | 113,054 | ine |
| Switzerland CH | female | 76% | 36,125 | bfs |
| France FR | male | 79% | 10,855 | insee |
| Canada CA | female | 96% | 8,813 | statcan |
| Norway NO | female | 100% | 8,136 | ssb |
| Austria AT | female | 100% | 8,130 | statat |
| England and Wales GB | female | 93% | 4,219 | ons |
| Ireland IE | female | 100% | 3,277 | cso |
| Poland PL | female | 69% | 2,688 | pesel |
Attested in 78 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
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Andrea over time
In the United States, 100% of the babies named Andrea in the 1890s were girls, against 98.9% in the 2020s. In France, 30.9% of the babies named Andrea in the 2010s were girls, against 11.1% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 100% | 131 | — | |
| 1900s | 100% | 185 | — | |
| 1910s | 88% | 655 | — | |
| 1920s | 92% | 1,249 | — | |
| 1930s | 96% | 2,278 | — | |
| 1940s | 99% | 17,186 | — | |
| 1950s | 99% | 29,788 | — | |
| 1960s | 98% | 59,493 | — | |
| 1970s | 98% | 87,977 | — | |
| 1980s | 99% | 99,525 | — | |
| 1990s | 99% | 65,877 | — | |
| 2000s | 99% | 49,543 | — | |
| 2010s | 99% | 27,345 | 31% | 5,045 |
| 2020s | 99% | 8,751 | 11% | 5,700 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Andrea with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Andrea&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Andrea
Is Andrea a male or female name?
Andrea is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 99% and male usage in France at 79%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Andrea change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Andrea identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.