Meaning not yet researched.
Andra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #757 in 1959.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #757 in 1959; #8,405 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Andra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,405 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1959, at #757.
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Andra: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #757 in 1959 · most girls in one year: 180 (1959).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Andra, making it the 8,405th most common girls’ name of the year, down 775 places from #7,630 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 14 girls named Andra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #757, reached in 1959. That year also had the most girls given the name: 180. For comparison, it was #10,214 in 2015 and #1,154 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Andra in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #740, reached in 1966. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #7,527 in 2015 and #3,339 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Andra in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 8,164 US babies have been given the name, 68% of them girls and 32% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,018 babies named Andra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 137 US girls were named Andra; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Sandra (878,223 babies since 1880), Andrea (451,448 babies since 1880), Alexandra (246,320 babies since 1880) and Casandra (15,791 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aundra, Andraya and Andray are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Estonian and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aundra (1,265), Andraya (1,073), Andray (241), Aundray (211), Andraea (36), Andrra (32), Lilandra (26), Aundrae (26), Andraia (10), Endra (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Andra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,405 | — | — |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,630 | — | — |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,394 | 5 | #12,365 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,454 | — | — |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,226 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,319 | 5 | #12,148 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,048 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,438 | 5 | #12,274 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,061 | 5 | #12,373 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,432 | 9 | #8,188 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,214 | 10 | #7,527 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,515 | 8 | #8,835 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,093 | 7 | #9,709 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,836 | 10 | #7,590 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,582 | 13 | #6,274 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,845 | — | — |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,433 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #5,964 | 11 | #7,218 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,388 | 14 | #5,919 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,999 | 9 | #8,032 |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,055 | 10 | #7,129 |
| 2004 | 35 | #3,997 | 17 | #4,804 |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,534 | 16 | #4,824 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,289 | 11 | #6,110 |
| 2001 | 32 | #3,950 | 14 | #5,153 |
| 2000 | 46 | #3,025 | 15 | #4,797 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,316 | 14 | #4,774 |
| 1998 | 30 | #3,838 | 15 | #4,421 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,373 | 15 | #4,254 |
| 1996 | 36 | #3,241 | 14 | #4,406 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,784 | 16 | #3,865 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,543 | 17 | #3,755 |
| 1993 | 47 | #2,603 | 29 | #2,511 |
| 1992 | 59 | #2,242 | 26 | #2,671 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,793 | 26 | #2,612 |
| 1990 | 57 | #2,235 | 30 | #2,311 |
| 1989 | 64 | #1,982 | 40 | #1,859 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,935 | 36 | #1,852 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,662 | 26 | #2,217 |
| 1986 | 78 | #1,552 | 32 | #1,875 |
| 1985 | 77 | #1,562 | 39 | #1,615 |
| 1984 | 89 | #1,350 | 52 | #1,280 |
| 1983 | 93 | #1,303 | 39 | #1,535 |
| 1982 | 91 | #1,357 | 45 | #1,415 |
| 1981 | 112 | #1,181 | 54 | #1,247 |
| 1980 | 92 | #1,363 | 52 | #1,291 |
| 1979 | 98 | #1,288 | 59 | #1,178 |
| 1978 | 96 | #1,275 | 48 | #1,301 |
| 1977 | 86 | #1,332 | 57 | #1,158 |
| 1976 | 93 | #1,217 | 66 | #1,020 |
| 1975 | 84 | #1,310 | 81 | #911 |
| 1974 | 101 | #1,143 | 73 | #953 |
| 1973 | 72 | #1,375 | 67 | #987 |
| 1972 | 138 | #904 | 75 | #921 |
| 1971 | 129 | #980 | 90 | #859 |
| 1970 | 132 | #961 | 77 | #912 |
| 1969 | 170 | #786 | 68 | #922 |
| 1968 | 136 | #883 | 87 | #794 |
| 1967 | 151 | #811 | 92 | #763 |
| 1966 | 130 | #879 | 99 | #740 |
| 1965 | 82 | #1,187 | 82 | #815 |
| 1964 | 98 | #1,103 | 84 | #823 |
| 1963 | 94 | #1,126 | 76 | #864 |
| 1962 | 99 | #1,090 | 68 | #918 |
| 1961 | 111 | #1,036 | 59 | #1,013 |
| 1960 | 161 | #822 | 71 | #897 |
| 1959 | 180 | #757 | 62 | #975 |
| 1958 | 107 | #1,003 | 46 | #1,133 |
| 1957 | 55 | #1,427 | 44 | #1,165 |
| 1956 | 75 | #1,204 | 29 | #1,447 |
| 1955 | 65 | #1,253 | 28 | #1,459 |
| 1954 | 67 | #1,220 | 26 | #1,497 |
| 1953 | 63 | #1,213 | 26 | #1,481 |
| 1952 | 83 | #1,028 | 12 | #2,253 |
| 1951 | 65 | #1,160 | — | — |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,154 | 6 | #3,339 |
| 1949 | 80 | #1,005 | 7 | #3,036 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,070 | 9 | #2,613 |
| 1947 | 76 | #1,014 | 7 | #3,101 |
| 1946 | 68 | #1,024 | — | — |
| 1945 | 56 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1944 | 79 | #855 | — | — |
| 1943 | 61 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1942 | 32 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,683 | — | — |
| 1939 | 24 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,229 | — | — |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,116 | — | — |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,440 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,571 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,471 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,104 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).