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Meaning of the nameYandra

Yandra is a spelling of the name Iandra.

Meaning

The meaning of Yandra is not known for certain. No reliable source documents it, so we give none; below are the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

People (2022)
3,245
Rank in Brazil
#3,675
Median age
12 years
2010 Census
1,343
people

Yandra in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Yandra, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 2010s (1,130 people).

3,226 women 0 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Yandra is most common

States with the highest share of people named Yandra in the population, in the 2022 Census.

  1. Sergipe 0.006%
  2. Amazonas 0.006%
  3. Pará 0.004%
  4. Espírito Santo 0.003%
  5. Maranhão 0.003%
All states
StatePeople% of population
Minas Gerais3930.002%
Bahia3210.002%
São Paulo2970.001%
Pará2870.004%
Amazonas2340.006%
Ceará2270.003%
Pernambuco1990.002%
Maranhão1870.003%
Rio de Janeiro1560.001%
Sergipe1380.006%
Espírito Santo1170.003%
Goiás880.001%
Mato Grosso820.002%
Rio Grande do Norte700.002%
Distrito Federal540.002%
Piauí520.002%
Santa Catarina510.001%
Alagoas450.001%
Rio Grande do Sul410.000%
Amapá400.006%
Paraíba390.001%
Paraná360.000%
Roraima320.005%
Rondônia190.001%
Mato Grosso do Sul150.001%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

The spelling Yandra

It swaps the initial I for Y, one of the spelling variants that the Dicionário de Nomes lists for Iandra.

About the name Iandra

The origin of Iandra and Yandra is uncertain. The Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil lists them as spelling variants of each other, along with Aindra, Hiandra and Hyandra. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 4,460 people named Iandra, with a median age of 19, and 3,245 named Yandra. In both spellings, records begin in the 1970s and most of the people were born in 2000 or later. Both names are almost always female.

Other spellings of Iandra

SpellingPeople (2022)
Iandra4,460
Yandra3,245

Sources

  1. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Iandra · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling
  2. Dicionário de Nomes em Uso no Brasil: Yandra · dicionariodenomesdobrasil.com.br · spelling

Questions about the name Yandra

What does the name Yandra mean?

The meaning of Yandra is not known for certain: no reliable source documents it. So we give no meaning; the page shows the origin of the spelling and the official figures.

How many people are named Yandra in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 3,245 people with the first name Yandra, which ranks it number 3,675 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 2010s.

Is Yandra a boy's or a girl's name?

Yandra is a female name: in the 2022 Census, 3,226 women and 0 men had this name (IBGE does not publish very small counts).

In which Brazilian state is Yandra most common?

Proportionally, in Sergipe: 0.006% of the state's population is named Yandra (138 people), according to the 2022 Census.

What are the other spellings of Yandra?

Iandra. IBGE counts each spelling separately.

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