Given name & surname
Edra
“a powerful and mighty woman”
Edra is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a powerful and mighty woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a powerful and mighty woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1901. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Edra through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,431
- 0 boys · 1,431 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 42 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 6 in 1988. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 42 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 667 as a first name in 2020; 175 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.
Edra’s family of names
Edra has a related form in Edrah. Edra has a related form in Edrea. Edra has a related form in Edreah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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