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Adisa

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To bundle up + to display; to leave something out to dry

Adisa has been given to 197 babies in the U.S. since 1994. 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 2011, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 59% girls, 41% boys all-time.

Babies named Adisa, 2023

1 in 552,000

Adisa over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Adisa over time

In 2023, Adisa went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19752023

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Adisa: meaning, origin, and history

To bundle up + to display; to leave something out to dry

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adisa means

Adisa means “to bundle up + to display; to leave something out to dry”, associated with dì and sá.

Origin, language, and formation

Adisa is used in Serbo-Croatian and Yoruba.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Yoruba, Adisa is pronounced /à.dì.sá/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 117 girls were recorded with the name Adisa between 1994 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2011; its best national rank was #10,381 in 2011.

In the United States, 80 boys were recorded with the name Adisa between 1975 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1977; its best national rank was #3,835 in 1977.

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 Adisa?

Adisa 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 552,000
6 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 267,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
382,940 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adisa 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 382,940 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adisa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adisas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adisa was born before 2006 — so the typical Adisa is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
117
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.9% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Adisa 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2011 (10)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,381
2011

Spellings of Adisa

Adisa is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 43.2% against Adisa's <0.01%.

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.

Adisa around the world

Where Adisa 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
    2000–2008
    #5,545
    in 2008
  • France
    2021–2021
    #6,467
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Adisa 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
#10,381
2011
Peak year
2011
10 that year
First recorded
1994
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
117
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,835
1977
Peak year
1977
9 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
80
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adisa

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

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Sibling names for Adisa

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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