Meaning not yet researched.
Astra: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,560 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,560 in 2022; #2,612 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Astra in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,612 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #2,560.
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Astra: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,560 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 69 (2022).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Astra, making it the 2,612th most common girls’ name of the year, up 566 places from #3,178 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 50 girls named Astra in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,560, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 69. For comparison, it was #9,555 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Astra in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 11 babies. In all, 771 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 350 babies named Astra.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 414 US girls were named Astra; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 69. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Astra ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,123 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Stella (207,288 babies since 1880), Aster (1,108 babies since 1880) and Astraea (699 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Astraya and Astraia 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, Latin, Latvian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Astraya (26), Astraia (20).
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 Astra in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 9 | #2,123 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,199 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,673 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,612 | — | — |
| 2024 | 50 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 2022 | 69 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 2021 | 53 | #3,073 | — | — |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,200 | — | — |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,211 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,347 | — | — |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,441 | — | — |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,555 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,702 | — | — |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,129 | — | — |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,481 | — | — |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,202 | — | — |
| 2009 | 7 | #13,890 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,864 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,375 | — | — |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,710 | — | — |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,941 | — | — |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,623 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,747 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,668 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,033 | — | — |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,322 | — | — |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,971 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,605 | — | — |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,616 | — | — |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,340 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,847 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,036 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,278 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,518 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,771 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,083 | — | — |
| 1975 | 12 | #4,880 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #7,762 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,717 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,339 | — | — |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,040 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,435 | — | — |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,676 | — | — |
| 1965 | 6 | #5,852 | — | — |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,331 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,605 | — | — |
| 1947 | 6 | #4,787 | — | — |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,775 | — | — |
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).