Given name & surname
Adra
“one who is chaste; a virgin”
Adra is used as a given name and a surname. One Arabic interpretation is “one who is chaste; a virgin.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Arabic interpretation is “one who is chaste; a virgin.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Arabic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1888. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Adra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 592
- 0 boys · 592 girls
- Most popular year
- 1971
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2019. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 491 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Adra’s family of names
Adra has a related form in Adara. Adra has a related form in Adrah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Appears in
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