Andy (given name)

Andy (given name)

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Andy is predominantly a diminutive version of the male given name Andrew, based on the Scottish "ie" diminutive ending. It is derived from the Greek name "Andreas", meaning "man". It is also occasionally used as a dimunutive for the female given name Andrea, the Portuguese and Spanish feminine version of the name Andrew.

It is also occasionally spelt as "Andie", "Andi" or "Andee", and is the 217th most popular name in the USA, with less than 0.001% of the people with this name being female.

In sports:
*Andy Bathgate (born 1932), Canadian ice hockey centerman
*Andy Caddick, English cricketer
*Andy Cole, English football (soccer) player
*Andy Johnson (English footballer), English football (soccer) player
*Andy Johnson (Welsh footballer), Welsh football (soccer) player

*Andy McDonald, Canadian ice hockey player

*Andy Murray, Scottish tennis player
*Andy Nicholls, British football hooligan and author

*Andy Pettitte, baseball player
*Andy Phillip, basketball player
*Andy Phillips, baseball player
*Andy Priaulx, racing driver
*Andy Robustelli, American football player
*Andy Roddick (born 1982), American professional tennis player
*Andy Selva, football (soccer) player
*Andy Sheets, baseball player
*Andy Sonnanstine, baseball player

In entertainment:
*Amos 'n' Andy (1920s-1950s), a radio-serial situation comedy popular in the United States
*Andy Bell, English singer with Erasure
*Andy Dick, American actor and comedian
*Andy Garcia, American actor
*Andy Gibb, English singer
*Andy Griffith, American actor
*Andy Hurley, drummer of American band Fall Out Boy
*Andy Kaufman, American comedian
*Andy Lau, Chinese singer and actor
*Andie MacDowell (born 1958), American actress
*Andy Madadian, Persian/Armenian singer
*Andy McCoy, Finnish musician
*Andy Mckee, Fingerstyle acoustic guitar player.
*Andy McNab (born 1959), British soldier-turned-novelist
*Andy Milonakis, American comedian
*Andi Osho (born 1973), British actress and television presenter
*Andy Richter, American comic
*Andy Rooney, American television personality
*Andy Serkis, English actor
*Andy Summers, English musician with the Police
*Andy Taylor, English musician with Duran Duran
*Andy Warhol, American artist
*Horace "Andy" Hinds (born 1951), Jamaican roots reggae singerIn fiction:
*A fictional character from "Date Movie"
*"Andy Fox", from the comic strip FoxTrot
*Andy Trudeau, a fictional character from the television series Charmed
*Andy Pipkin, a fictional character from the British comedy series, "Little Britain"
*"Andy", the main character from the game Heart of Darkness

References

* [http://www.behindthename.com/php/search.php?nmd=n&terms=ANDY Behind the Name]
* [http://www.geocities.com/edgarbook/names/az/andy.html Name database]


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