Frequency: (404)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
1. German: from a pet form of a Germanic personal name composed with And- (see Ander).
2. Americanized or Germanized spelling of Latvian Andiņš, a derivative of the personal name Andis.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
