Andera
Feminine
Andera is overwhelmingly a girls’ name — 735 girls against 18 boys since 1880.
Andera swaps two letters of a name that Europe cannot agree about in several other ways as well. The same six letters are said four different ways depending on the country, and each set of speakers finds the others peculiar.
How old is the name Andera?
Andera first appears in US birth records in 1944 — 81 years ago. The typical Andera alive today was born around 1976, making them about 49 years old. About 700 people named Andera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andera most popular?
Andera peaked in 1967, reaching #2212 nationally. See the whole 1967 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Andera
In Italy it is a man's name, stressed on the second syllable. In English it is a woman's name, stressed on the first. In German it is a woman's name, stressed on the second. In Czech and Slovak it is a woman's name with the stress on the first and a different vowel quality throughout. Each of these is completely settled inside its own borders and completely wrong across them, and an Italian Andrea moving to America has a specific and repeated problem, as does an American Andrea in Rome. The letters have not changed. Everything else has.
Meaningnot established
Not established
The Greek name behind Andrea is documented and its sense is settled. This letter order is not documented and no reason for it has been recorded, and the record holds the spelling for both sexes.
Pronouncing Andera
AN-duh-ruh
Three syllables with the stress in front. an-DAIR-uh is also heard, and the swapped letters do change the sound slightly.
Nicknames for Andera
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1944
- Most girls named
- 198133 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2212reached in 1967
- Change vs 2002
- −16.7%5 in 2009, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Andera in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in Italian — related form
Anderas among us
people named Andera are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Andera sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Andi comes off the front as a short form and works for either sex.
- It is recorded for boys and for girls, so it leaves a question open rather than closing it.
- It is soft throughout with no difficult consonant in it.
- The spelling is recorded for a few boys, but nearly every child with it is a girl.
- Andrea is far commoner, and readers will put the letters back in the usual order by reflex.
- No reason for the spelling is documented, so there is nothing to say when someone asks why.
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Frequently asked
- How many Anderas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Andera are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andera in 2025?
- Andera is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Andera with classmates?
- Andera will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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