Given name & surname

Wondra

Wondra is a surname from Czech.

Original CzechVondra

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Wondra comes from Czech.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Czech Vondra.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1963. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Wondra through the years

Babies since 1880
33
0 boys · 33 girls
Most popular year
1963
8 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
0246198020002025Highest share 19790.0
Wondra in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1963–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 1979. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 768 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.

Wondra’s family of names

In English usage, Wondra as a surname was borrowed from the Czech form Vondra.

Walk Wondra’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

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