Andreasen History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The distinguished surname Andreasen can be traced back to the ancient and beautiful region of Venice. The people here were known by only a single name until it became necessary for them to adopt a second name to identify themselves as populations grew and travel became more frequent. The process of adopting fixed hereditary surnames was not complete until the modern era, but the use of hereditary family names in Italy began in the 10th and 11th centuries. Italian hereditary surnames were developed according to fairly general principles and they were characterized by a profusion of derivatives coined from given names. Andreasen is a patronymic surname, a name derived from the father's given name. The surname Andreasen came from the Greek given name Andreas, which is a name that means manly. The given name Andreas is itself derived from the Greek words aner, andrós, which mean man, and by extension warrior.

Early Origins of the Andreasen family

The surname Andreasen was first found in Friuli (Venetian: Friul), an area of northeastern Italy in 1150 with the Andriotti family. This family was known for ownership of several castles in the region, and in 1210 they were made nobility.

Early History of the Andreasen family

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Andreasen research. Another 119 words (8 lines of text) covering the years 1311, 1401, 1413, 1462, 1467, 1470, 1474, 1498, 1500, 1548, 1553, 1562, 1576, 1584, 1591, 1604, 1614, 1624, 1654, 1713, 1724, 1737, 1741, 1755, 1760, 1763, 1765 and 1784 are included under the topic Early Andreasen History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Andreasen Spelling Variations

Enormous variation in spelling and form characterizes those Italian names that originated in the medieval era. This is caused by two main factors: regional tradition, and inaccuracies in the recording process. Before the last few hundred years, scribes spelled names according to their sounds. Spelling variations were the unsurprising result. The variations of Andreasen include Andradi, Andrasi, Andre, Andrea, Andreacchio, Andreadi, Andrean, Andreanelli, Andreani, Andreasi, Andretti, Andrei, Andreis, Andrello, Andreol, Andreola, Andreoletti, Andreoli, Andreolo, Andreotta, Andreotti, Andretta, Andreucci, Andreutti, Andreuzzi, Andri, Andria, Andriani, Andrich, Andrini, Andriola, Andrioli, Andriolli, D'Andre, D'Andrea, De Andre, De Andrea, De Andreis, Dreani, Dreas, Dreassi, Drei, Dreini, Dreoni, Dreossi, Dri, Drioli, Drius, Driussi, Driusso and many more.

Early Notables of the Andreasen family

Prominent among members of the family was Giorgio Andreoli (c. 1470 - 1553), Italian potter generally considered to be the most important potter of the Italian Renaissance; Iacomo Andrea (d. 1500), an Italian architect from Ferrara, beheaded for plotting against the French; Francesco Andreini, a valiant soldier in Pistoia in 1548; Ippolito Andreasi was a talented painter in Mantua in the same year; Andrea Andreani was a wood carver and printer in Mantua, and in 1584 he published a copy of one of Tiziano's works. In 1576 Giovan Battista Andreini was a popular actor in Florence; Alessandro Andreasi was made a...
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Andreasen Ranking

In the United States, the name Andreasen is the 11,114^th most popular surname with an estimated 2,487 people with that name. 1

Andreasen migration to the United States +

Immigrants bearing the name Andreasen or a variant listed above include:

Andreasen Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

Caroline Andreasen, who landed in New York, NY in 1850 2

Contemporary Notables of the name Andreasen (post 1700) +

Steve Andreasen, American Democratic Party politician, Democratic-Farmer-Labor Candidate for U.S. Representative from Minnesota 1st District, 2002 3
Carl C. Andreasen, American Republican politician, Delegate to Republican National Convention from Michigan, 1956, 1960 (alternate); Member of Michigan Republican State Central Committee, 1957-59 3
Andrew F. Andreasen (1879-1961), American politician, Mayor of Escondido, California, 1953-56 3

Citations +

"What are the 5,000 Most Common Last Names in the U.S.?". NameCensus.com, https://namecensus.com/last-names/
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, February 2) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html