Adala

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Adala has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1923, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Adala, 1923

1 in 460,000

Adala over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adala: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adala means

Adala is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Adala is used in Old Saxon.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Adala between 1923 and 1923. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1923; its best national rank was #4,966 in 1923.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adala?

Adala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923: 1 in 460,000; 5 of 2,302,410 births
Among girls only: 1 in 241,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1923: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 319,183 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Adala 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 1923 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 319,183 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adala was born before 1923 — so the typical Adala is around 102 today.

Median birth year: 1923; About 102 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Adala 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1923 (5)
Years since peak: 102; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,966; 1923

Spellings of Adala

Adala is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 20.2% against Adala's <0.01%.

Dana20.2%193,555
Ada11.2%106,905
Alana7.1%68,264
Darla4.6%43,667
Amaya4.5%43,525
Adele4.4%42,362
Ayla4.0%38,040
Adalyn3.2%31,014

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.

Adala around the world

Where Adala 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.

South Australia
1992–1992
#704
in 1992

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adala by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,966; 1923
Peak year: 1923; 5 that year
First recorded: 1923
Last recorded: 1923
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Adala

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

Adab Adahia Adaku Adaily Adahara Adale Adamma Adalhi Adacia Adason Adavia Adaure Adaela Zanala Tiala Ujala Asala Haala Avala Nhala Miala Inala Adaleyah Jhala

Sibling names for Adala

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

For a sister

Filomena Novella Dorcas Vernice Bethel Rosina Kattie Magdalene

For a brother

Elwin Rubin Bertram Eldridge Trinidad Hobert Harland Walton

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