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Adara

#1,004 in 2025Girls' name

Noble

Adara has been given to 2,917 babies in the U.S. since 1979. In 2025 it ranked #1,004 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 249 recorded.

Babies named Adara, 2025

1 in 13,300

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adara: meaning, origin, and history

Noble

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adara means

Adara means “noble”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,917 girls were recorded with the name Adara between 1979 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 249 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,004 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,748 in 2020 to #1,004 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,432 in 2015 to #1,004 in 2025.

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 Adara?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 13,300
249 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 6,450
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,004
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,230 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adara 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 9,230 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adara. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adaras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adara was born before 2013 — so the typical Adara is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,917
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (1,012).

Is Adara 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
+40
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,744
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,428
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (249)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,004
2025

Spellings of Adara

Adara is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 17.9% against Adara's 0.12%.

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 Adara is used

Across 2016–2025, Adara was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 12,296 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

114 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 7,143
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 9,091
  4. 4Texas1 in 9,091
  5. 5Arizona1 in 10,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 10,000
  7. 7California1 in 12,500
  8. 8Georgia1 in 14,286

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.

Adara around the world

Where Adara 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
    1997–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    2018–2019
    #7,716
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1992–2005
    #517
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS 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.

Adara by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,004
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,744
Best rank ever
#1,004
2025
Peak year
2025
249 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,917
Count in 2025
249

Names similar to Adara

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

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Names with a curve like Adara

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

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Sibling names for Adara

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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