Andrra appears to be a modern spelling variant of Andrea, from Greek roots meaning manly or brave.
Andrra is a name from the Albanian language tradition, where it means 'dream' — derived from the Albanian noun 'ëndërr' (dream, vision in sleep), with the spelling Andrra representing a regional and dialectal form found particularly in Kosovo and among Albanian communities in North Macedonia and southern Serbia. In Albanian folk culture, dreams occupy a liminal, semi-sacred space: the 'ëndrrëtari' (dream interpreter) was a figure of genuine communal importance, and dreams were understood as channels through which the living communicated with ancestors and received prophetic guidance. As a given name, Andrra is uncommon even within Albanian-speaking communities, where it occupies the territory of poetic naming — parents reaching for something more evocative than conventional names, something that announces an aspiration for the child's inner life rather than simply their place in a social or religious lineage.
It sits alongside other Albanian names drawn from nature and abstract nouns: Blerina (greenness of spring), Flutura (butterfly), Diellza (sunshine), Lule (flower). These names collectively form a naming tradition that is unusually lyrical by European standards. Outside the Balkans, Andrra is almost entirely unknown, which gives it a double rarity: rare even among speakers of the language from which it derives.
In diaspora communities — particularly in Switzerland, Germany, and the United States, where large Albanian populations have settled — the name serves as both a cultural marker and an intimate piece of inherited poetic language. To name a child Andrra is to give them the word for dream.
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