Adah

Where Adah comes from

From Hebrew עָדָה (adá, “Adah”, literally “ornament, dawn”).
— Wiktionary's entry for Adah
  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1835
    Adah Isaacs Menken born
    American actress, dancer, painter, and poet
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #326 among girls — 24 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Peak, #277
    41 babies named Adah — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1908
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #939.
  5. 1992
    Adah Sharma born
    Indian film actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew.
Namesakes
  • Adah Sharma · Indian film actress, born 1992
  • Adah Isaacs Menken · American actress, dancer, painter, and poet, 1835–1868
  • Adah Almutairi · American academic, born 1976
  • Adah Belle Thoms · American nurse and activist, 1870–1943
  • Adah Robinson · American Artist, teacher and printmaker, 1882–1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.