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Astra

#2,612 in 2025Girls' name

Aster flower

Astra has been given to 771 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #2,612 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 69 recorded.

Babies named Astra, 2025

1 in 50,200

Astra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Astra: meaning, origin, and history

Aster flower

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Astra means

Astra means “aster flower”, associated with astra.

Origin, language, and formation

Astra is used in Latvian.

Astra comes through Latin astrum.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 771 girls were recorded with the name Astra between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 69 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,560 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,934 in 2020 to #2,612 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,550 in 2015 to #2,612 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Astra?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,612
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Astra sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Astra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Astras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Astra was born before 2017 — so the typical Astra is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
45.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
754
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (350).

Is Astra rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+566
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+322
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,938
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
6.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
95.7%
Peak was 2022 (69)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,560
2022

Spellings of Astra

Astra is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 60.0% against Astra's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Astra is used

Across 1910–2025, Astra was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 470,558 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Florida1 in —
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Astra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Astra around the world

Where Astra ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2023–2025
    #4,175
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2021–2024
    #1,968
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1951–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Astra by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,612
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 322
Best rank ever
#2,560
2022
Peak year
2022
69 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
771
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Astra

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Astra

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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