Andre, Andrei or Andrey?

[Anonymous]

Name him Andrew and then call him whatever version you like at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Last name is unambiguously slavic, and the parents are from Eastern Europe. Parents don’t want a “tragedeigh” name but also don’t want to culturally appropriate the name they perceive as predominantly AA currently (Andre).
Thoughts?

Andre is French. It's the name of half my ancestors in France.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Andrei would be mispronounced (unless it is Andre-ee?)
Andrey would get confused with Audrey 90% of the time, and the other 10% would be pronounced as Ann-dree

I vote Andre. I actually don't think Andre reads AA. I've known several Andres that were Hispanic/Italian/latin, so that would be my first thought.

#1 Andre
#2 Andrei

All Andrés I know are french, not AA. SMDH.

André

Do you know French people named Andre or André?

To me, André is French but that’s as different from Andre as Andrei is.

Well, French people use the accent but computers and passports and drivers licenses here can't cope with that. Andre and André are the same thing. I have a Scottish Mc name, and computers also omit the second capital letter in names like McDonald.

[Anonymous]

Andrei is Romanian.

Also Eastern Europeans couldn’t care less if you used (aka “culturally appropriated” whatever that actually means) any of our names, we’d celebrate it. I think Easter Europeans and Gen Xers have a lot in common. No time for nonsense is the main theme.

Congrats to the parents!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would assume it was spelled Andre and didn't really think of it as a particularly AA name until you pointed it out (but have a Slavic background myself). I suspect he'll have the least trouble having to spell it over and over with Andre

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