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Adah

#1,818 in 2025Girls' name

To pass by, to remove, through עָדָה

Adah has been given to 4,123 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,818 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 121 recorded.

Babies named Adah, 2025

1 in 30,100

Adah over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adah: meaning, origin, and history

To pass by, to remove, through עָדָה

Hebrew

What Adah means

Adah belongs to the name family reached through Adah → עָדָה. Its meaning is “to pass by, to remove”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Adah (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Adah is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Adah comes through Hebrew עָדָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include עָדָה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,123 girls were recorded with the name Adah between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 121 in 2020; its best national rank was #277 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,687 in 2020 to #1,818 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,123 in 2015 to #1,818 in 2025.

How common is Adah?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 30,100
110 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,818
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,891 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,891 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adah was born before 1953 — so the typical Adah is around 72 today.

Median birth year
1953
About 72 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,093
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2010s — 20.1% of all recorded uses (828).

Is Adah rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+235
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−131
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+305
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.22×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.9%
Peak was 2020 (121)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#277
1883

Spellings of Adah

Adah is not the most common spelling — Sarah is, with 44.1% against Adah's 0.17%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Adah is used

Across 2016–2025, Adah was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 8,333 girls, against 1 in 23,794 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 8,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 12,500
  3. 3Virginia1 in 14,286
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 20,000
  7. 7California1 in 25,000
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Adah around the world

Where Adah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2005–2025
    #2,605
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2016–2025
    #780
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2017–2025
    #397
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2004–2025
    #718
    in 2025
  • France
    2022–2025
    #5,094
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2005–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1991–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Adah

People whose public names include Adah, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Adah by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,818
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 131
Best rank ever
#277
1883
Peak year
2020
121 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,123
Count in 2025
110

Names similar to Adah

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Adah

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Adah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LeonieEmelineZoraArieArizonaMallieAdeliaLennaIsaZadieMinaSena

Sibling names for Adah

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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