Andie is the English diminutive of Andrea — from the Greek Andreas, aner (man) — "manly, strong, brave." Andie MacDowell (born Rosalie Anderson MacDowell, 1958) — *American actress and model; star of Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989, BAFTA Best Supporting Actress + Independent Spirit nomination), Groundhog Day (1993, with Bill Murray), Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994, Golden Globe nomination), Multiplicity (1996), and Hallmark's The Way Home (2023-present). The face of L'Oréal Paris for 40+ years (1986-present) — her tenure is the longest of any L'Oréal spokesperson in history. In 2021 she famously embraced her natural grey hair publicly, becoming a high-profile advocate for ageing-as-it-is in mainstream cosmetics. Andie Walsh — heroine of John Hughes's Pretty in Pink (1986), played by Molly Ringwald. Andie Anderson — the lead of How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days* (2003) — Kate Hudson. Andie is also a feminine diminutive of Andrew or Andre.
Featured throughout 1980s-2020s American cinema.
Andie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Andie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.