Nadra
given name · Latin script
Meaning: radiance, brightness, a light of beauty
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nəɖɹə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nadra is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country.
- SYSyria≈1 in 17K(inferred from the name graph)
- EGEgypt≈1 in 60K
- USUnited States1 in 585K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Syria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
radiance, brightness, a light of beauty. .3 523 avail! 5 a5 agasay 6 “You will know in their faces the radiance of delight." (surat al-Mutaffifin 83:24)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nadra counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 111K | listed | Nadra | 23 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Nadra | 8 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | Nadra | 40 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Nadra | 61 |
| YE Yemen | #978 | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Nadra | 4 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Nadra | 10 |
| TN Tunisia | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Nadra | 14 |
| US United States | — | 569 | 1 in 585K | 562 | Nadra | 163 |
| IL Israel | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Nadra | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the wgnd-eg-names register; the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Nadra is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, radiance, bloom, glamour, brightness, opulence, wealth
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Swahili, Kiswahili: 'unusual'
as a nameAfrican Names
In Arabic, scarce
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In osx, snake, serpent
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swahili, scarce, rare
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Fernando Nadrab. 1916ARArgentinian politician (1916-1995)
- Alejandro D. NadraARresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 562 | #18,816 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 7 | #18,816 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 7 | — |
| PK Pakistan | Muslim given names (CC0) | — | — | — |
| EG Egypt | WGND 2.0 — Egypt given names | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Nadra come from?
- radiance, brightness, a light of beauty. .3 523 avail! 5 a5 agasay 6 “You will know in their faces the radiance of delight." (surat al-Mutaffifin 83:24) Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Nadra?
- A machine transcription gives /nəɖɹə/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- Is Nadra a male or female name?
- Nadra is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Nadra mean?
- Recorded meaning: radiance, brightness, a light of beauty.
- In which country does Nadra have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Nadra in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nadra.
- How common is the name Nadra?
- In the United States, the national register counted 569 people named Nadra in 2020, about 1 in 585 thousand residents.
- How common is Nadra compared with other names?
- In Yemen, Nadra is the 978th most common given name of 14,934 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nadra?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nadraThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Nadra” — the 978th most common given name in Yemen. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.