Sundra — girls' name
649 babies named Sundra in U.S. Social Security records since 1938, with the highest year being 1953. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
27% of everyone ever named Sundra was born in this single decade.
25 babies were named Sundra in 1953 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Sundra
The Social Security Administration has registered 649 babies named Sundra between 1938 and 1994, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sundra currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1994. The name reached its historical peak in 1953, when 25 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Sundra performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 175 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Sundra shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Sundra in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Sundra 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 649 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.
Sundra at a glance
Last recorded 1994Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Sundra popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1994–1938
- Peak year (1953)
- 25
- Annual births at peak — across 57 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1994.
649 total births across 57 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1953 with 25 births in a single year.
Sundra by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 175 births that decade — 27% of Sundra's all-time total
Sundra decade highlights
- Peak decade 175 births
- Runner-up 164 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Sundra's strongest decade
175 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 27% of all-time use.
Sundra by state
Where Sundra concentrates geographically — total births since 1938
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 23 | 3.5% |
| #2 | Alabama | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #3 | California | | 5 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Mississippi | | 5 | 0.8% |
23 of 649 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.5% of nationwide
- Alabama 0.8% of nationwide
- California 0.8% of nationwide
- Mississippi 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.5% 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, 1938–1994 (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.