Adah
Adah reached its high-water mark in 2020 at number 1,687, and has been recorded 4,123 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 1,818th. About 2,100 Adahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Adah
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 4,123
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2020
- Best rank
- 1,687th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,818th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Adahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 4,123 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,100 are alive — 52 in every hundred. Roughly 1,500 of them are children and 130 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
From Hebrew עָדָה (“Adah”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Adahs
- Adah Sharma (born 1992)Indian film actress
- Adah Isaacs Menken (1835–1868)American actress, dancer, painter, and poet
People named Adah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adah is most concentrated in North Carolina (3.8×), Georgia (2.6×), Texas (2.4×), Tennessee (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2020
The most popular girls’ names the year Adah peaked:
Adah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Adah | 152 | 1,449th |
| Ireland girls | Adah | 47 | 444th |
| France girls | Adah | 20 | 5,094th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Adah | 10 | 355th |
| Switzerland girls | Adah | 6 | 1,792nd |
| Scotland girls | Adah | 6 | 798th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Adah | 4 | 0.000% | 938th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Adah | 1 | 0.000% | 1,042nd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Adah | 1 | 0.002% | 161st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Related names
Adah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.