Andra
Masculine · “man”
Andra is given to both — 2,592 boys and 5,572 girls since 1880. See Andra as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Andra can be cut from Alexandra or built from Andrew, and the two routes go to opposite ends of the same Greek word. One takes the back of a compound about defending men; the other takes the front of a name that simply means manly.
How old is the name Andra?
Andra first appears in US birth records in 1947 — 78 years ago. The typical Andra alive today was born around 1972, making them about 53 years old. About 2,300 people named Andra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Andra most popular?
Andra peaked in 1966, reaching #740 nationally. See the whole 1966 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Andreas to Andra
The story of Andra
Andrew is the only apostle with a Greek name, which is worth pausing on: the others are Hebrew or Aramaic, and his is a perfectly ordinary Greek word, suggesting a family with one foot in the Greek-speaking world. The name went east and became Scotland's patron and Russia's and Greece's, and it produced feminine forms everywhere it went — Andrea, Andrina, Andra. Alexandra, separately, has been cut at every joint, and one of the pieces is this. The record cannot tell them apart, and both were in use in the same American decades.
Meaning
man, manly
The Greek aner, andros, means a man, and it sits inside both possible parents. Whichever road this name took, that is what it carries.
How the name formed
- Andreas
- Andra
Related forms: Andrea · Andra · Andra
Pronouncing Andra
AN-druh
Two syllables with the weight at the front. Romanian and Latvian say it the same way.
Nicknames for Andra
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
- 1947
- Most boys named
- 196792 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #740reached in 1966
- Change vs 2020
- 0.0%5 in 2023, from 5
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.
Andra in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Andrea in Italian — related form
- Andra in Romanian — same name
- Andra in Latvian — same name
Andras among us
people named Andra 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
Andra 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
- It is a standing name in Romania and Latvia rather than only an American cut.
- Five letters, two syllables, and nothing complicated to say.
- It sits behind two of the largest name families in Europe.
- Andrea, Sandra and Andra are close neighbors and will be confused.
- Its parentage is genuinely double, so the meaning arrives by two roads.
- The spelling is recorded for a small number of boys, though it reads overwhelmingly as a girl's name.
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Frequently asked
- How many Andras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,300 people named Andra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Andra in 2025?
- Andra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Andra with classmates?
- Andra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
More A names
The most-given names starting with A, all years combined.
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