Edra
Feminine
Edra is four letters with no recoverable source, which is the ordinary condition of a great many short names in the American registers of the early nineteen hundreds. Readings from Hebrew and Greek are offered in reference works and neither is supported by anything; the likeliest account is a clipping or a home-made formation that nobody thought worth explaining.
How old is the name Edra?
Edra first appears in US birth records in 1901 — 124 years ago. The typical Edra alive today was born around 1929, making them about 96 years old. About 400 people named Edra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Edra most popular?
Edra peaked in 1905, reaching #797 nationally. See the whole 1905 chart.
Where it comes from
From A front in wide use in American naming to Edra
Our story of Edra
Four-letter names are a category and they behave alike. They arrive in numbers in periods when a naming system is generating rather than inheriting, they cluster geographically because they spread by imitation, they last a generation or two, and they leave no descendants. Above all they cannot be traced, because four letters carry almost no information: a name that long could have come from a dozen places, and nothing about the letters narrows it. That is not a failure of scholarship. It is a property of very short words, and it applies equally to short names in every language and every period. The honest thing to tell a child is that the name was made rather than inherited, and that the making was not written down.
Meaningnot established
Not established
No source can be established. It may be cut from Edna, Edwina or Adra, it may be built on the Ed- front that was in wide use at the time, and it may be a surname. The Hebrew and Greek derivations printed for it are guesses attached to a word that arrived without documentation, which is the normal situation for names of this kind.
How the name formed
- A front in wide use in American naming
- Four-letter names appearing in numbers around nineteen hundred
- Edra recorded without explanation
- In use for about two generations and then gone
Pronouncing Edra
ED-ruh
Two syllables, stress on the first. Some families say EE-druh with a long first vowel instead, which the spelling permits and which sounds like a different name, so it is worth establishing at an introduction.
Nicknames for Edra
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
- 1901
- Most girls named
- 192042 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #797reached in 1905
- Change vs 1979
- −25.0%6 in 1988, from 8
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.
Edras among us
people named Edra 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
Edra 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 short, clear and immediately sayable once the vowel is settled.
- It is genuinely rare while being made entirely of familiar material.
- Edie is available as a sideways short form and is thoroughly current.
- The first vowel is genuinely ambiguous from the spelling.
- There is no meaning or origin to give, and that is the accurate answer.
- It is very firmly of the turn of the twentieth century.
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Frequently asked
- How many Edras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 400 people named Edra are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Edra in 2025?
- Edra is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
- Will my child share the name Edra with classmates?
- Edra will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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The most-given names starting with E, all years combined.
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