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Adena

#13,226 in 2025Girls' name

Alternate transcription of Adina

Adena has been given to 1,747 babies in the U.S. since 1902. In 2025 it ranked #13,226 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1975, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Adena, 2025

1 in 553,000

Adena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adena: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Adina

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adena means

Adena is a alternate transcription of Adina.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Adena is used in Hebrew (Rare).

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adena → Adina → עדינה. The family’s meaning is “gentle; mild”, recorded in Hebrew with the source elements adín.

Origin, language, and formation

Adena is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adina.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,747 girls were recorded with the name Adena between 1902 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1975; its best national rank was #1,793 in 1902.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,956 in 2020 to #13,226 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #9,492 in 2015 to #13,226 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 Adena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,226
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adena 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adena was born before 1980 — so the typical Adena is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
18.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
20.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,513
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Choose a decade

1970s — 18.4% of all recorded uses (322).

Is Adena 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
+2,093
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−4,270
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,734
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.0%
Peak was 1975 (43)
Years since peak
50
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,793
1902

Spellings of Adena

Adena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 32.0% against Adena's 0.06%.

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 Adena is used

Across 1910–2025, Adena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 294,012 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Ohio1 in —
  4. 4Pennsylvania1 in —
  5. 5Texas1 in —

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

Adena around the world

Where Adena 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
    1997–2001
    #3,998
    in 2001
  • France
    2006–2025
    #3,055
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–1993
    #2,149
    in 1993
  • South Australia
    1971–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,226
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,270
Best rank ever
#1,793
1902
Peak year
1975
43 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,747
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Adena

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

AdeenaAdelenaAdelNeenaAdellRaenaMeenaIrenaReenaAdelinAdelitaAdelieAdenAmenaAdeleneAdelyneOlenaAdelleAdeliaAdeyaAdellaAdessaKenaJelena

Sibling names for Adena

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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