# Adah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | “adah”, “ornament”, “dawn” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 4,123 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 4,123 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 152, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).

## What it means

Adah is grouped under dawn.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 60 | 2,868 |
| 2012 | 59 | 2,901 |
| 2013 | 81 | 2,279 |
| 2014 | 78 | 2,351 |
| 2015 | 90 | 2,123 |
| 2016 | 81 | 2,321 |
| 2017 | 87 | 2,184 |
| 2018 | 109 | 1,852 |
| 2019 | 106 | 1,888 |
| 2020 | 121 | 1,687 |
| 2021 | 91 | 2,085 |
| 2022 | 93 | 2,068 |
| 2023 | 77 | 2,352 |
| 2024 | 94 | 2,053 |
| 2025 | 110 | 1,818 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 5,785 |
| 2012 | 4 | 4,838 |
| 2013 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2014 | 6 | 3,514 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,706 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 11 | 2,286 |
| 2020 | 21 | 1,449 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 15 | 1,849 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 8 | 3,015 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2,605 |

## In other languages

- Estonian: Aada
- Finnish: Aada, Ada
- Hindi: एडा, आदा
- Portuguese: Ada
- Vietnamese: A-đa

## People named Adah

- Adah Isaacs Menken, American actress, dancer, painter, and poet (1835–1868)
- Adah Almutairi, American academic

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.