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Nadra

Girls' name

Radiance, splendour

Nadra has been given to 317 babies in the U.S. since 1934. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1976, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Nadra, 2022

1 in 484,000

Nadra over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nadra: meaning, origin, and history

Radiance, splendour

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nadra means

Nadra means “radiance, splendour”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Nadra is used in Arabic.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈnadˤ.ra/ for Nadra.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 girls were recorded with the name Nadra between 1934 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1976; its best national rank was #4,007 in 1942.

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.

How common is Nadra?

Nadra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 234,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,262 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nadra 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 2022 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 335,262 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nadra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nadras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nadra was born before 1980 — so the typical Nadra is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
20.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
276
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 20.5% of all recorded uses (65).

Is Nadra 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1976 (13)
Years since peak
49
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,007
1942

Spellings of Nadra

Nadra is not the most common spelling — Sandra is, with 26.5% against Nadra's <0.01%.

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.

Nadra around the world

Where Nadra 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
    2000–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1960–2023
    #4,318
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1948–1948
    #369
    in 1948

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

Nadra by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,007
1942
Peak year
1976
13 that year
First recorded
1934
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
317
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nadra

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

NadiahNadjaSedraNadarNadiraNadegeNadyaIndraCedraNadeenNadiyaNadezhdaNadinaIsidraNadyneNadiyahNadeaNadieNadalieSidraKedraWandraKeidraNadin

Sibling names for Nadra

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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