Andra
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births · Last seen for boys in 2023 at #12,239
Given to girls 68.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1959 · 180 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,572since 1917
Andra over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 | — | |
| 2024 | #7,594 | 14 | — | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #12,022 | 5 |
| 2019 | #7,025 | 16 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | #5,045 | 26 | #12,246 | 5 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | #7,491 | 10 |
| 2014 | #8,485 | 13 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #11,969 | 8 | #9,655 | 7 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #6,564 | 19 | #6,256 | 13 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | — | |
| 2009 | #9,379 | 12 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | #7,187 | 11 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 | #4,815 | 16 |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #3,940 | 32 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #3,020 | 46 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,313 | 38 | #4,762 | 14 |
| 1998 | #3,831 | 30 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 | #4,246 | 15 |
| 1996 | #3,237 | 36 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #2,541 | 49 | #3,751 | 17 |
| 1993 | #2,600 | 47 | #2,509 | 29 |
| 1992 | #2,239 | 59 | #2,670 | 26 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,234 | 57 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #1,981 | 64 | #1,858 | 40 |
| 1988 | #1,934 | 63 | #1,849 | 36 |
| 1987 | #1,662 | 73 | #2,215 | 26 |
| 1986 | #1,552 | 78 | #1,873 | 32 |
| 1985 | #1,562 | 77 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | #1,350 | 89 | #1,280 | 52 |
| 1983 | #1,303 | 93 | #1,534 | 39 |
| 1982 | #1,357 | 91 | #1,415 | 45 |
| 1981 | #1,181 | 112 | #1,246 | 54 |
| 1980 | #1,363 | 92 | #1,291 | 52 |
| 1979 | #1,288 | 98 | #1,177 | 59 |
| 1978 | #1,275 | 96 | #1,299 | 48 |
| 1977 | #1,331 | 86 | #1,158 | 57 |
| 1976 | #1,216 | 93 | #1,019 | 66 |
| 1975 | #1,309 | 84 | #911 | 81 |
| 1974 | #1,143 | 101 | #953 | 73 |
| 1973 | #1,374 | 72 | #987 | 67 |
| 1972 | #904 | 138 | #921 | 75 |
| 1971 | #980 | 129 | #859 | 90 |
| 1970 | #961 | 132 | #910 | 77 |
| 1969 | #786 | 170 | #920 | 68 |
| 1968 | #883 | 136 | #794 | 87 |
| 1967 | #811 | 151 | #763 | 92 |
| 1966 | #879 | 130 | #740 | 99 |
| 1965 | #1,187 | 82 | #815 | 82 |
| 1964 | #1,103 | 98 | #823 | 84 |
| 1963 | #1,126 | 94 | #863 | 76 |
| 1962 | #1,090 | 99 | #917 | 68 |
| 1961 | #1,036 | 111 | #1,013 | 59 |
| 1960 | #822 | 161 | #897 | 71 |
| 1959 | #757 | 180 | #975 | 62 |
| 1958 | #1,003 | 107 | #1,131 | 46 |
| 1957 | #1,427 | 55 | #1,165 | 44 |
| 1956 | #1,204 | 75 | #1,443 | 29 |
| 1955 | #1,253 | 65 | #1,458 | 28 |
| 1954 | #1,220 | 67 | #1,496 | 26 |
| 1953 | #1,213 | 63 | #1,480 | 26 |
| 1952 | #1,028 | 83 | #2,251 | 12 |
| 1951 | #1,160 | 65 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,153 | 64 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #1,005 | 80 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #1,070 | 68 | #2,608 | 9 |
| 1947 | #1,012 | 76 | #3,096 | 7 |
| 1946 | #1,023 | 68 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,032 | 56 | — | |
| 1944 | #855 | 79 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,022 | 61 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,438 | 32 | — | |
| 1941 | #1,310 | 34 | — | |
| 1940 | #1,682 | 22 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,544 | 24 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,570 | 11 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | — | |
| 1935 | #2,731 | 10 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 | — | |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
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| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
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| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Andra! It came in at #4,083, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Andra is popular in 1940
No state had 5 or more girls named Andra in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Andra
- 768 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #8,362)
- 1,888 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #8,362)
- 1,786 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #8,362)
- Biggest jump: 308 spots in 1966 (#1,187 → #879)
- Biggest drop: 470 spots in 1973 (#904 → #1,374)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1959 at #757 (180 births)
- Births halved by 1965, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 1966–1972
- Highest: 1 in 9,924 girls born in 1969 were named Andra (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #757 in 1959, was only 1 in 11,241 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.1% of all girls named Andra (1,232) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #4,083 (1917) | #4,083 |
| 1920s | 11 | #4,445 (1922) | #4,772 |
| 1930s | 97 | #1,544 (1939) | #2,952 |
| 1940s | 576 | #855 (1944) | #1,145 |
| 1950s | 824 | #757 (1959) | #1,142 |
| 1960s | 1,232 | #786 (1969) | #972 |
| 1970s | 1,029 | #904 (1972) | #1,178 |
| 1980s | 832 | #1,181 (1981) | #1,525 |
| 1990s | 420 | #2,234 (1990) | #2,993 |
| 2000s | 332 | #3,020 (2000) | #4,652 |
| 2010s | 152 | #5,045 (2017) | #8,064 |
| 2020s | 61 | #7,594 (2024) | #9,675 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Andra in 1940
Top girls' names in 1940
More about 1940
girls
1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 51,979 of them was named Andra, which outranked 66.5% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,635Valorie23
- #1,635Zadie23
- #1,635Zita23
- #1,682Andra22
- #1,682Alexandria22
- #1,682Ardath22
- #1,682Arlyne22
- #1,745Adelaida21
- #1,745Alease21
- #1,745Arnita21
Tied with 62 names at #1,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.