How Many People Are Named Adah?
people named Adah are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 159,488 people in the US has this name
Based on 4,123 babies named Adah in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
121 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Means "adornment" in Hebrew. This was the name of the wives of both Lamech and Esau in the Old Testament.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Adah in English. Counting Adah and these spellings together, about 40,549 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Adah in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Adah alive today is about 17 years old, and 87% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 18 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Adah first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 2020, to 121 babies. In 2025, 110 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Adah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #277, in 1883. In 2025 it ranked #1,818.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #1,818 |
| Best rank | #277 (1883) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,276 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Adah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Adah were born in Texas than in any other state: about 137 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Adah was given 3.4 times as often in North Carolina, 2.2 times in Georgia and 1.7 times in Texas.
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