Andrei History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The distinguished surname Andrei 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. Andrei is a patronymic surname, a name derived from the father's given name. The surname Andrei 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 Andrei family

The surname Andrei 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 Andrei family

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Andrei 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 Andrei 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 Andrei 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...
Fossato Andrea was proprietor of the Milanese Church in the 17th century, and Camillo Andrea, also of Milan, was created Bishop of Almira by Pope Urbano VIII. One branch of this Milanese family, the A...

Andrei migration to the United States +

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

Andrei Settlers in United States in the 19th Century

William Andrei, who arrived in Baltimore Maryland in 1806 1
S Andrei, aged 28, who landed in New Orleans, La in 1838 1

Contemporary Notables of the name Andrei (post 1700) +

Andrei Sokolov (b. 1963), French, ex-Russian chess player
Andrei Sokolov (b. 1972), Latvian chess player
Andrei Frantsevich Belloli (1820-1881), Italian-born Russian painter; known primarily for his female nudes
Andrei Linde (b. 1948), Russian-American theoretical physicist and professor of Physics
Andrei Mudrea (1954-2022), Romanian painter and fine artist from Bessarabia
Andrei Gherman (1941-2021), Moldovan physician and politician who served as Minister of Health
Andrei Smirnov (b. 1962), Russian footballer
Andrei Smirnov (b. 1941), Soviet Russian actor and filmmaker
Andrei Ivanovich Stepanov (d. 2018), Soviet and Russian diplomat, professor, and author
Andrei Netto (b. 1977), Brazilian journalist and writer

Citations +

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)