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Adda

#6,837 in 2025Girls' name

English equivalent of Adam

Adda has been given to 987 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,837 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1888, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Adda, 2025

1 in 207,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adda: meaning, origin, and history

English equivalent of Adam

Hebrew

What Adda means

Adda is a English equivalent of Adam.

Origin, language, and formation

Adda is used in Old English and Welsh. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adam.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old English, Adda is pronounced /ˈɑd.dɑ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 987 girls were recorded with the name Adda between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1888; its best national rank was #374 in 1881.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,024 in 2015 to #6,837 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,837
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adda 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Addas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adda was born before 1913 — so the typical Adda is around 112 today.

Median birth year
1913
About 112 years old
Biggest decade
1880s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
111
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1880s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (207).

Is Adda 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
+2,724
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6,187
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.3%
Peak was 1888 (27)
Years since peak
137
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#374
1881

Spellings of Adda

Adda is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 28.0% against Adda's 0.03%.

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 Adda is used

Across 1910–2025, Adda was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 165,293 across all states with data.

11 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 100,000

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. Adda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adda around the world

Where Adda 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
    2017–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1910–2025
    #3,382
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,837
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#374
1881
Peak year
1888
27 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
987
Count in 2025
16

Names similar to Adda

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

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Sibling names for Adda

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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