Meaning not yet researched.
Adah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 110 in 2025. Its best rank was #277 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #277 in 1883; #1,818 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,818 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #277.
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Adah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 110 girls in 2025. Peak: #277 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 121 (2020).
In 2025, 110 US girls were named Adah, making it the 1,818th most common girls’ name of the year, up 235 places from #2,053 in 2024. That is 16 more than the 94 girls named Adah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #277, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 121, in 2020. For comparison, it was #2,123 in 2015 and #2,909 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adah in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 24 babies. In all, 4,123 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 828 babies named Adah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 969 US girls were named Adah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 121. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,612 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adah ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #731 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ada (107,183 babies since 1880), Aida (13,782 babies since 1880), Ayda (1,535 babies since 1880) and Adaya (1,188 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adaiah, Adayah and Adahia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adaiah (580), Adayah (315), Adahia (9), Ghadah (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Adah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 6 | #731 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,129 | #616 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,139 | — |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,213 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,407 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,689 | #1,838 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,637 | #2,051 |
| California | 6 | #2,768 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 110 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 2024 | 94 | #2,053 | — | — |
| 2023 | 77 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 2021 | 91 | #2,085 | — | — |
| 2020 | 121 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 2019 | 106 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 2018 | 109 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2017 | 87 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 2016 | 81 | #2,321 | — | — |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,123 | — | — |
| 2014 | 78 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 2013 | 81 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 2011 | 60 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 2010 | 77 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2009 | 73 | #2,548 | — | — |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,258 | — | — |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,820 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,309 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,133 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,178 | — | — |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,168 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,809 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,146 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,749 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,520 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,785 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,327 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,978 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,201 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,371 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,113 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,320 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,156 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,131 | — | — |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,418 | — | — |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,212 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,653 | — | — |
| 1977 | 10 | #5,890 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,297 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,427 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,331 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #5,818 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #5,975 | — | — |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,017 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #6,804 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,290 | — | — |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,594 | — | — |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,408 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,918 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,209 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #3,967 | — | — |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,041 | — | — |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1951 | 6 | #4,833 | — | — |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,975 | — | — |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,995 | — | — |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,389 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,380 | — | — |
| 1943 | 18 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,737 | — | — |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,145 | — | — |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,689 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,720 | — | — |
| 1934 | 15 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,754 | — | — |
| 1931 | 15 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 1930 | 33 | #1,320 | — | — |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,825 | — | — |
| 1928 | 22 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 1927 | 25 | #1,669 | — | — |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,357 | — | — |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1924 | 29 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1923 | 43 | #1,174 | — | — |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,144 | — | — |
| 1921 | 48 | #1,092 | — | — |
| 1920 | 42 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 1919 | 42 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1918 | 49 | #1,031 | — | — |
| 1917 | 57 | #916 | — | — |
| 1916 | 59 | #882 | — | — |
| 1915 | 65 | #811 | — | — |
| 1914 | 48 | #850 | — | — |
| 1913 | 30 | #981 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #978 | — | — |
| 1911 | 26 | #838 | — | — |
| 1910 | 20 | #970 | — | — |
| 1909 | 18 | #961 | — | — |
| 1908 | 18 | #939 | — | — |
| 1907 | 27 | #726 | — | — |
| 1906 | 32 | #633 | — | — |
| 1905 | 28 | #664 | — | — |
| 1904 | 24 | #710 | — | — |
| 1903 | 38 | #522 | — | — |
| 1902 | 25 | #667 | — | — |
| 1901 | 24 | #645 | — | — |
| 1900 | 37 | #567 | — | — |
| 1899 | 39 | #467 | — | — |
| 1898 | 35 | #527 | — | — |
| 1897 | 57 | #382 | — | — |
| 1896 | 46 | #424 | — | — |
| 1895 | 33 | #513 | — | — |
| 1894 | 41 | #437 | — | — |
| 1893 | 48 | #387 | — | — |
| 1892 | 40 | #419 | — | — |
| 1891 | 43 | #384 | — | — |
| 1890 | 49 | #361 | — | — |
| 1889 | 33 | #421 | — | — |
| 1888 | 38 | #394 | — | — |
| 1887 | 32 | #378 | — | — |
| 1886 | 41 | #332 | — | — |
| 1885 | 32 | #354 | — | — |
| 1884 | 33 | #341 | — | — |
| 1883 | 41 | #277 | — | — |
| 1882 | 27 | #341 | — | — |
| 1881 | 29 | #290 | — | — |
| 1880 | 24 | #326 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).