Andreas

Andreas is the Greek original, from andreios, manly or brave, before the name traveled west and softened into Andrew. In Sweden and across northern Europe the Greek spelling has always held its own, slightly more formal than Anders, slightly more elegant than Andy. Three syllables if you clip it, two if you let them flow together. Andreas Vesalius rewrote anatomy in the sixteenth century, and a long bench of Swedish footballers and musicians have carried the name since. It reads cosmopolitan and clean, the sort of name that moves easily between a Stockholm studio and a Lisbon airport. Quietly confident, internationally fluent.