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Nedra

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Nedra has been given to 7,104 babies in the U.S. since 1906. 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 1941, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Nedra, 2016

1 in 612,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Nedra: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Nedra means

Nedra is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Nedra is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,104 girls were recorded with the name Nedra between 1906 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 179 in 1941; its best national rank was #519 in 1941.

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 Nedra?

Nedra had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 612,000
6 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 295,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
423,922 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Nedra 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 2016 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 423,922 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Nedra. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Nedras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Nedra was born before 1948 — so the typical Nedra is around 77 today.

Median birth year
1948
About 77 years old
Biggest decade
1940s
18.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,409
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1940s — 18.3% of all recorded uses (1,299).

Is Nedra 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1941 (179)
Years since peak
84
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#519
1941

Spellings of Nedra

Nedra is not the most common spelling — Debra is, with 32.9% against Nedra's 0.42%.

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 Nedra is used

Across 1910–2025, Nedra was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 37,834 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 6,250
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 12,500
  3. 3Illinois1 in 20,000
  4. 4Indiana1 in 20,000
  5. 5Missouri1 in 20,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

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. Nedra has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Nedra around the world

Where Nedra 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.

  • France
    1979–1992
    #3,701
    in 1992
  • South Australia
    1953–1968
    #679
    in 1968

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Nedra

People whose public names include Nedra, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Nedra 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
#519
1941
Peak year
1941
179 that year
First recorded
1906
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
7,104
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Nedra

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

AndraNedaAudraSidraKindraLeandraDedraDeandraSondraIndraDeidraKasandraZandraPhaedraSedraCasandraKyndraIsidraDeedraAlondraDiedraCandraKendraTedra

Names with a curve like Nedra

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Nedra, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LonnieMadonnaAnnettaCharleenJonnieErnestinaDorethaTrevaJohnnyErlindaGeorgettaJeanetta

Sibling names for Nedra

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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