Entry № 1055 · English origin

Audra Audra — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AW-drah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Noble strength (Audra McDonald, six-time Tony winner)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "noble strength (audra mcdonald, six-time tony winner)".

Audra is a Lithuanian word for "thunderstorm" — and independently a 20th-century American respelling of Audrey, from the Old English æðel (noble) + þryð (strength). Married actor Will Swenson in 2012.

Noble strength (Audra McDonald, six-time Tony winner) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Audra
Transliteration
Audra
Pronunciation
/ ˈɔː.drə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Audra stands.

Audra does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Audras before her.

Real people
Audra McDonald
American Tony-winning actress.
born 1970
In fiction
Audra Barkley
The Big Valley.
1965

Names connected to Audra.

The number behind Audra.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Audra reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.