Andra

Where Andra comes from

Andra hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1955
    Andra Veidemann born
    Estonian politician
  3. 1959
    Peak, #757
    180 babies named Andra — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1965
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,187.
  5. 1984
    Andra Day born
    American singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Andra Day · American singer, born 1984
  • Andra Veidemann · Estonian politician, born 1955
  • Andra Manson · American high jumper, born 1984
  • Andra Medea · academic, born 1953
  • Andra Teede · Estonian writer, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.