Adah Girl
How popular is Adah?
#1,818 girl name in 2025
110 baby girls were named Adah in the US in 2025, making it the 1818th most popular girl name.
Adah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,818 for girls (▲ 235 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 110 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising (+22% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #2,123 in 2015, #1,687 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2020 (121 girls) |
| Highest rank | #277 in 1883 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Adah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Ada family of names ranked #217 for girls in 2025 (#200 the year before), with 1,527 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ada | 1,401 | 92% |
| Adah | 110 | 7% |
| Adda | 16 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Adah is most popular
Babies named Adah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- North Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (32 girls)
- Georgia: 0.1 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (15 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (7 girls)
- Virginia: 0.1 per 1,000 (12 girls)
Adah by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 330 | #277 |
| 1890s | 431 | #361 |
| 1900s | 271 | #522 |
| 1910s | 423 | #811 |
| 1920s | 340 | #1,092 |
| 1930s | 156 | #1,320 |
| 1940s | 79 | #2,078 |
| 1950s | 61 | #2,908 |
| 1960s | 29 | #5,288 |
| 1970s | 47 | #5,817 |
| 1980s | 44 | #7,106 |
| 1990s | 65 | #6,969 |
| 2000s | 433 | #2,547 |
| 2010s | 828 | #1,852 |
| 2020s | 586 | #1,687 |
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Questions
- Is Adah a boy or girl name?
- Adah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Adah were girls.
- How popular is the name Adah?
- 110 baby girls were named Adah in the US in 2025, making it the 1818th most popular girl name.
- When was Adah most popular?
- Adah peaked in 2020, when 121 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #277 in 1883.
- How many people are named Adah?
- 4,123 babies have been named Adah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 2,163 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Adah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Adah was most common in North Carolina, at 0.1 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.