Deandra
Masculine · “defender of men”
Deandra is given to both — 857 boys and 4,927 girls since 1880. See Deandra as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Alexander's name went further than his empire. It is Iskandar in Persian and Arabic, Sikandar in Urdu, Iskender in Turkish, Skender in Albanian — carried east by the conquest and then kept by the people conquered, who made him a legend in their own literature. Very few names have traveled that far under their own power.
How old is the name Deandra?
Deandra first appears in US birth records in 1962 — 63 years ago. The typical Deandra alive today was born around 1989, making them about 36 years old. About 800 people named Deandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Deandra most popular?
Deandra peaked in 1987, reaching #1612 nationally. See the whole 1987 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Alexandra to Deandra
The story of Deandra
The De- prefix has been productive in American naming for a century, and one of the things it does is make matched pairs: DeAndre and Deandra, DeShawn and DeShawna, Damon and Damonica. A family can name two children so that the names are visibly siblings, which is an old idea running through new machinery — Roman families did it with clan endings and Germanic ones by sharing a name element. What sits under the second half here is one of the largest name families in the world. Alexander's name is in Egypt as Alexandria, in Afghanistan possibly as Kandahar, and in the epic literature of half a dozen languages that had every reason to dislike him and kept him anyway.
Meaningscholars disagree
defender of men, at a distance
The -andra element reaches back either to Alexandra, from Greek alexein, to defend, with andros, man; or to Andrea, from the same word for man alone. The De- at the front is an American prefix and carries no meaning. Which of the two stands behind a particular Deandra is not recorded.
How the name formed
- Alexandra
- Andra
- Deandra
Pronouncing Deandra
dee-AN-druh
Three syllables, stress in the middle, with the prefix unstressed. That is the standard pattern for prefixed names, so strangers usually get the weight right on sight.
Nicknames for Deandra
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
- 1962
- Most boys named
- 198948 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1612reached in 1987
- Change vs 2017
- −16.7%5 in 2022, 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.
Deandras among us
people named Deandra 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
Deandra 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
- The base has a documented Greek meaning behind it, however far back.
- Three short forms, two of which are full names in their own right.
- Three syllables with a regular stress and nothing hard to say.
- Deandrea, DeAndra and Diandra are all in use, so the spelling will need giving.
- The prefix carries no meaning, so only half the name has one.
- The very few boys given this spelling will be read as girls on paper.
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Frequently asked
- How many Deandras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 800 people named Deandra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Deandra in 2025?
- Deandra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 boy names.
- Will my child share the name Deandra with classmates?
- Deandra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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