Andreas

Andreas is the Greek original, from andreios, meaning brave or manly, the form that existed before the name softened into Andrew across its journey west. In Sweden and across northern Europe the Greek spelling has always maintained a quiet authority — slightly more formal than the local Swedish Anders, slightly more cosmopolitan than the English Andy, carrying the suggestion of someone who has read something and been somewhere.

Andreas Vesalius rewrote human anatomy in the sixteenth century, dissecting bodies in public and overturning a thousand years of received wisdom, which is the kind of bearer that makes a name feel intellectually serious. A long bench of Swedish footballers, musicians, and scientists have carried it in modern times without it ever concentrating in any single field. It reads clean and cosmopolitan in 2026, the sort of name that moves easily between a Stockholm studio and a Barcelona apartment without asking for translation. The ending s gives it a slightly dressed-up finish that sets it apart from Andreas's shorter cousins. For parents who want something recognizably European without being specifically any one country's name, Andreas makes a strong argument.