Where the Andrews name comes from

Andrews is a patronymic surname, formed from the given name Andrew. It has English, Scottish and Norse roots. The earliest record of the surname places it in Caithness, in the far north of Scotland, where the Andrews were closely tied to Clan Ross.

Over the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries the Scottish Andrews spread out, many to Northern Ireland and England and others to America, Canada and Australia. By the 1881 British census the name was most concentrated in Dorset, at 3.6 times the British average. Wiltshire, Huntingdonshire, Worcestershire and Hampshire followed. The name also appears in the spelling Andrus.