Given name & surname
Anda
“manliness”·“virility”·“a woman graced with God's favor”
Anda is a variant of Andrea. For the English feminine name, one alternative theory points to Greek andreia, “manliness” or “virility.” This is a proposed route of formation, not a settled translation covering every use of Andrea. In Czech use, Anda is a diminutive of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Anda is a variant of Andrea. For the English feminine name, one alternative theory points to Greek andreia, “manliness” or “virility.” This is a proposed route of formation, not a settled translation covering every use of Andrea. In Czech use, Anda is a diminutive of Anna. One Latin interpretation is “a woman graced with God's favor.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Anda is a variant of Andrea. Italian Andrea is the equivalent of Andrew. English feminine Andrea is usually connected with Andreas, though an independent English creation from a Greek word has also been proposed.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
In Czech usage, Anda is a diminutive of Anna. Anda is a variant of Andrea. The shared background comes through Andrea: The Italian and English traditions should be read separately. The English name may be a feminine adaptation of Andreas; another explanation treats it as a learned coinage from andreia. The evidence does not establish one route with certainty.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1943. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Anda is a variant of Andrea. The history of Andrea gives this family its wider story. The English feminine name is documented from the seventeenth century rather than the Middle Ages. That later appearance is part of the reason its origin has been debated separately from Italian masculine Andrea.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Anda through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 194
- 0 boys · 194 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 12 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 8 in 2016. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 12 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 648 as a first name in 2020; 705 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Anda’s family of names
In Czech usage, Anda is a diminutive of Anna. Anda has a related form in Andrea. In Latvian usage, Anda has a conventional equivalent in the English form Andrea.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Anda
- Anda ČakšaLatvian physician, businessperson, and politician (born 1974)
- Anda ŠafranskaLatvian and French chess player (born 1960)
- Anda EibeleLatvian basketball player (born 1984)
- Anda AdamRomanian singer and modelborn 1980
- Anda PerianuRomanian tennis playerborn 1980
- Anda UpīteLatvian lugerborn 2000
- Anda Pinkerfeld AmirIsraeli poet (1902-1981)
- Anda RottenbergPolish art historianborn 1944
- Anda KerkhovenDutch resistance fighter (1919–1945)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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