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Adora

#2,326 in 2025Girls' name

Short form of Adoración

Adora has been given to 2,373 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #2,326 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 106 recorded.

Babies named Adora, 2025

1 in 42,500

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adora: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Adoración

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adora means

Adora is a short form of Adoración.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adoración.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,373 girls were recorded with the name Adora between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 106 in 2021; its best national rank was #1,871 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,034 in 2020 to #2,326 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,990 in 2015 to #2,326 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 Adora?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 42,500
78 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 20,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,326
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
29,461 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adora 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 29,461 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adora. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adoras were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adora was born before 2007 — so the typical Adora is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,253
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.0% of all recorded uses (546).

Is Adora 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
+108
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−292
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,664
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
73.6%
Peak was 2021 (106)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,871
2021

Spellings of Adora

Adora is not the most common spelling — Nora is, with 16.5% against Adora's 0.20%.

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 Adora is used

Across 2016–2025, Adora was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 27,535 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

26 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in 16,667
  2. 2New York1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 25,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 33,333
  6. 6Georgia1 in 33,333
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 33,333

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.

Adora around the world

Where Adora 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
    2001–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • France
    1986–2025
    #4,082
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2001–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2012
    #871
    in 2012

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.

Notable people named Adora

People whose public names include Adora, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Adora in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Adora. Linked forms have their own page here.

DoraAdonaAdoréeAdorataAnnadoraAdoración

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Adora by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,326
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 292
Best rank ever
#1,871
2021
Peak year
2021
106 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,373
Count in 2025
78

Names similar to Adora

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

AdoreThoraLioraAnoraIzoraLanoraEudoraNooraDevoraSoraHonoraElioraZamoraSonoraKamoraEloraAmoraAdoniaCloraSenoraAzoraAloraToraLeora

Names with a curve like Adora

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

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Sibling names for Adora

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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