Dandrea — unisex name
915 babies named Dandrea in U.S. Social Security records since 1954, with the highest year being 1990. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
30% of everyone ever named Dandrea was born in this single decade.
45 babies were named Dandrea in 1990 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Dandrea
The Social Security Administration has registered 915 babies named Dandrea between 1954 and 2021, spanning 68 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Dandrea currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Dandrea is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 174 additional births since 1962.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Dandrea performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 272 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Dandrea shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 45 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Louisiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Dandrea in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Dandrea in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 915 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Dandrea at a glance
Last recorded 2021Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Dandrea popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2021–1954
- Peak year (1990)
- 45
- Annual births at peak — across 68 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2021.
915 total births across 68 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1990 with 45 births in a single year.
Dandrea popularity over time — boys
174 total births recorded since 1962 (Dandrea as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Dandrea accounts for 16% of total recorded use across both genders.
Dandrea by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 272 births that decade — 30% of Dandrea's all-time total
Dandrea decade highlights
- Peak decade 272 births
- Runner-up 210 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Dandrea's strongest decade
272 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 30% of all-time use.
Dandrea by state
Where Dandrea concentrates geographically — total births since 1954
Top 5 states
- Texas 4.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 0.5% of nationwide
- Louisiana 0.5% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 4.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1954–2021 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.