Nedra
Nedra was last recorded in 2016, when 6 babies were given it; 7,104 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,920 Americans named Nedra and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (55% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 54 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Nedra by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Nedra mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Nedra is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Nedra?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,680, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
179 babies in 1941, the peak
Nedra peaked in 1941, when 179 girls were given it, #519 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 6 | #15,680 | under 0.01 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,499 | under 0.01 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,768 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,037 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,555 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,022 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,065 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,181 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,478 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,121 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (101)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #15,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,132 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,589 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,337 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,927 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,259 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,355 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,987 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,430 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,806 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 28 | #3,245 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,058 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 93 | #1,318 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 69 | #1,622 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,354 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 60 | #1,840 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 55 | #1,956 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,584 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 67 | #1,609 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 63 | #1,674 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,508 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 61 | #1,573 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 53 | #1,700 | 0.04 |
| 1972 | 66 | #1,464 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 74 | #1,425 | 0.04 |
| 1970 | 76 | #1,382 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 67 | #1,434 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,220 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,058 | 0.06 |
| 1966 | 105 | #1,009 | 0.06 |
| 1965 | 79 | #1,214 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 114 | #1,006 | 0.06 |
| 1963 | 107 | #1,039 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 95 | #1,118 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 99 | #1,106 | 0.05 |
| 1960 | 110 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 96 | #1,093 | 0.05 |
| 1958 | 120 | #943 | 0.06 |
| 1957 | 116 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 98 | #1,036 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 148 | #793 | 0.08 |
| 1954 | 123 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1953 | 131 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 128 | #803 | 0.07 |
| 1951 | 130 | #776 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 138 | #730 | 0.08 |
| 1949 | 118 | #799 | 0.07 |
| 1948 | 109 | #840 | 0.06 |
| 1947 | 127 | #764 | 0.07 |
| 1946 | 122 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 91 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1944 | 123 | #671 | 0.09 |
| 1943 | 125 | #680 | 0.09 |
| 1942 | 147 | #618 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 179 | #519 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 158 | #548 | 0.14 |
| 1939 | 132 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1938 | 117 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 97 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1936 | 105 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1935 | 94 | #689 | 0.09 |
| 1934 | 109 | #642 | 0.10 |
| 1933 | 77 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1932 | 102 | #669 | 0.10 |
| 1931 | 77 | #766 | 0.07 |
| 1930 | 104 | #674 | 0.09 |
| 1929 | 70 | #854 | 0.06 |
| 1928 | 70 | #879 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 79 | #831 | 0.07 |
| 1926 | 51 | #1,050 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 71 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1924 | 65 | #948 | 0.05 |
| 1923 | 73 | #860 | 0.06 |
| 1922 | 71 | #871 | 0.06 |
| 1921 | 86 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 75 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1919 | 69 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1918 | 86 | #774 | 0.07 |
| 1917 | 63 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1916 | 84 | #743 | 0.08 |
| 1915 | 92 | #692 | 0.09 |
| 1914 | 66 | #713 | 0.09 |
| 1913 | 56 | #699 | 0.09 |
| 1912 | 45 | #754 | 0.08 |
| 1911 | 32 | #775 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 25 | #873 | 0.06 |
| 1909 | 14 | #1,137 | 0.04 |
| 1908 | 18 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,208 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Nedra a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Nedra has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 101 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Nedra: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Nedra, and how old are they?
3,920 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 55% of the 7,104 Americans ever recorded as Nedra. The median Nedra alive today is 66 years old; half are between 54 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 4,294 people named Nedra (4,288 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,505 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 645 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,720 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,060 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 428 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 52 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Nedra born?
The states with the most babies named Nedra are Texas, Illinois and California, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 475 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 435 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 340 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 291 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 232 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Utah | 203 | not ranked | 4.2× |
| Indiana | 178 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 177 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 163 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 118 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Nedra is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Nedra is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 4.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Nedra with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 7,164 babies since 1880, Nedra is the most given (99% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Nedra
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Nedra and names like it
- Compare Nedra and NeidraBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sNedra peaked in 1941.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Nedra since 1910.
- The top names of 1941The year the most babies were named Nedra.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Nedra alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with NMost given first.