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Adannaya

Girls' name

Eldest daughter of her father

Adannaya has been given to 67 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2023, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Adannaya, 2023

1 in 255,000

Adannaya over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adannaya: meaning, origin, and history

Eldest daughter of her father

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adannaya means

Adannaya means “eldest daughter of her father”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adannaya is used in Igbo.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 67 girls were recorded with the name Adannaya between 2006 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2023; its best national rank was #8,058 in 2023.

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.

How common is Adannaya?

Adannaya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 123,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
176,742 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adannaya 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 2023 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 176,742 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adannaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adannayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adannaya was born before 2019 — so the typical Adannaya is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
67
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.8% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Adannaya 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (13)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
69.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,058
2023

Spellings of Adannaya

Adannaya is not the most common spelling — Danaya is, with 51.1% against Adannaya's 4.3%.

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.

Adannaya around the world

Where Adannaya 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
    2019–2025
    #2,006
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Adannaya 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
#8,058
2023
Peak year
2023
13 that year
First recorded
2006
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
67
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adannaya

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

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Sibling names for Adannaya

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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