Andrew Lloyd

It's a bit of a strange time to be an Andrew, to be honest.

I've always quite liked my name, but you can't avoid the kind of notorious headlines that are everywhere at the moment.

It's not that there are a lot of bad Andrews out there, but there are enough notorious Andrews that are filling the headlines.

I think it's not the best time to be called Andrew.

I've not noticed it directly, but once I noticed all these headlines and the fact that whenever you typed my first name into Google, I went onto the news tab, it was just full of these horrible headlines.

I started to do a bit of digging into the name Andrew, and I realized that the popularity of the name has absolutely plummeted.

So Scotland, for example, the patron Saint Andrew, for 50 years,

That was in the top three most popular names until 2024 when it didn't even make the top 100.

So I do think there is a considerable change going on at the moment.

We can't say that that's necessarily a result of that.

But I imagine if you're having a child at the moment, Andrew may not be on the top of your baby names list.

So everyone calls me Andrew, and sometimes they ask if I prefer Andy or Drew, and I always say Andrew, and I don't know why, to be honest, but it's interesting how different people go for different versions.

That's right, yeah.

So I joined this... Well, first of all, so I just started typing the name Andrew into Google because I thought maybe I should find some better representatives of the name out there.

Let's see what other Andrews are up to.

Is any Andrews doing anything for any good causes?

And that's how I stumbled upon the Council of Andrews on Facebook.

They had 6,000 members and you could only join if your name was Andrew.

So I joined and I entered and I found there was this massive community that was formed in 2019 of people called Andrew...

drew andre and even andreas as long as your name derives from the greek root name andreas you can join up and i just got to know everyone in this group just observing slowly at first and then i noticed that they had these american things called drew fests where lots of people with a derivative of the name andreas met up in person to hang out so i thought okay let me see if i can connect with people called andrew