Astra
#2,607 for girls in 2025, 66 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 69 births
- Debut · girls
- 11 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 771since 1944
Astra over time
Rank among girls' names. Astra has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,607 | 66 |
| 2024 | #3,176 | 50 |
| 2023 | #2,936 | 57 |
| 2022 | #2,554 | 69 |
| 2021 | #3,069 | 53 |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 |
| 2019 | #6,176 | 19 |
| 2018 | #8,146 | 13 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 |
| 2009 | #13,704 | 7 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 |
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| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 |
| 1999 | — | |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | |
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| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 |
| 1988 | — | |
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| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 |
| 1982 | #4,025 | 19 |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
| 1979 | #4,231 | 17 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 |
| 1971 | #6,006 | 8 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
| 1969 | #6,617 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
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| 1962 | #5,293 | 7 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #4,764 | 6 |
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| 1944 | #2,762 | 11 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Astra! It came in at #2,762, and was given to 11 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1946, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Astra is popular in 2020
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,625 · 1 in 12,444
Best ever in a state: #867 in Massachusetts, 2024.
Show every state
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| California | #1,625 | 14 | 1 in 12,444 |
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See more about Astra
- 569 spots since 2024 (#3,176 → #2,607)
- 324 spots since 2020 (#2,931 → #2,607)
- 6,874 spots since 2015 (#9,481 → #2,607)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2022 at #2,554 (69 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 23,770 girls born in 2022 were named Astra (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,353 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 45.4% of all girls named Astra (350) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 17 | #2,762 (1944) | #3,763 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,563 (1952) | #5,563 |
| 1960s | 19 | #5,293 (1962) | #5,909 |
| 1970s | 118 | #3,098 (1978) | #5,505 |
| 1980s | 79 | #4,025 (1982) | #7,340 |
| 1990s | 37 | #7,987 (1991) | #10,553 |
| 2000s | 31 | #11,801 (2000) | #14,336 |
| 2010s | 115 | #6,176 (2019) | #9,164 |
| 2020s | 350 | #2,554 (2022) | #2,879 |
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.
Astra in 2020
Top girls' names in 2020
More about 2020
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1,616,549 girls got a published name in 2020; 1 in 29,392 of them was named Astra, which outranked 83.3% of the 17,527 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,890Vania56
- #2,890Zamiyah56
- #2,890Zoei56
- #2,931Astra55
- #2,931Amaiyah55
- #2,931Amyrah55
- #2,931Ara55
- #2,966Aahana54
- #2,966Aalayah54
- #2,966Akari54
Tied with 34 names at #2,931; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.