Adah
#1,818 for girls in 2025, 110 births
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 41 births
- Debut · girls
- 24 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,123since 1880
Adah over time
Rank among girls' names. Adah has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,818 | 110 |
| 2024 | #2,053 | 94 |
| 2023 | #2,352 | 77 |
| 2022 | #2,068 | 93 |
| 2021 | #2,085 | 91 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,888 | 106 |
| 2018 | #1,852 | 109 |
| 2017 | #2,184 | 87 |
| 2016 | #2,321 | 81 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2014 | #2,351 | 78 |
| 2013 | #2,279 | 81 |
| 2012 | #2,901 | 59 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 |
| 2010 | #2,427 | 77 |
| 2009 | #2,548 | 73 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 |
| 2007 | #2,684 | 68 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,819 | 37 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #5,174 | 22 |
| 2000 | #9,163 | 10 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #7,742 | 11 |
| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | — | |
| 1986 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #7,418 | 8 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | #5,888 | 10 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | — | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | — | |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | — | |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | — | |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #5,408 | 6 |
| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #5,040 | 6 |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 |
| 1951 | #4,833 | 6 |
| 1950 | #2,909 | 13 |
| 1949 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 |
| 1947 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,994 | 7 |
| 1945 | #3,388 | 8 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #2,079 | 18 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,737 | 10 |
| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #1,720 | 20 |
| 1934 | #2,087 | 15 |
| 1933 | #1,906 | 17 |
| 1932 | #1,754 | 20 |
| 1931 | #2,105 | 15 |
| 1930 | #1,320 | 33 |
| 1929 | #1,825 | 20 |
| 1928 | #1,784 | 22 |
| 1927 | #1,669 | 25 |
| 1926 | #1,357 | 34 |
| 1925 | #1,443 | 32 |
| 1924 | #1,566 | 29 |
| 1923 | #1,174 | 43 |
| 1922 | #1,144 | 45 |
| 1921 | #1,092 | 48 |
| 1920 | #1,171 | 42 |
| 1919 | #1,133 | 42 |
| 1918 | #1,031 | 49 |
| 1917 | #916 | 57 |
| 1916 | #882 | 59 |
| 1915 | #811 | 65 |
| 1914 | #850 | 48 |
| 1913 | #981 | 30 |
| 1912 | #978 | 27 |
| 1911 | #838 | 26 |
| 1910 | #970 | 20 |
| 1909 | #961 | 18 |
| 1908 | #939 | 18 |
| 1907 | #726 | 27 |
| 1906 | #633 | 32 |
| 1905 | #664 | 28 |
| 1904 | #710 | 24 |
| 1903 | #522 | 38 |
| 1902 | #667 | 25 |
| 1901 | #645 | 24 |
| 1900 | #567 | 37 |
| 1899 | #467 | 39 |
| 1898 | #527 | 35 |
| 1897 | #382 | 57 |
| 1896 | #424 | 46 |
| 1895 | #513 | 33 |
| 1894 | #437 | 41 |
| 1893 | #387 | 48 |
| 1892 | #419 | 40 |
| 1891 | #384 | 43 |
| 1890 | #361 | 49 |
| 1889 | #421 | 33 |
| 1888 | #394 | 38 |
| 1887 | #378 | 32 |
| 1886 | #332 | 41 |
| 1885 | #354 | 32 |
| 1884 | #341 | 33 |
| 1883 | #277 | 41 |
| 1882 | #341 | 27 |
| 1881 | #290 | 29 |
| 1880 | #326 | 24 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Adah was already there! It came in at #326, and was given to 24 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Adah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#960 · 1 in 4,940
- Tennessee#1,125 · 1 in 6,245
- North Carolina#1,232 · 1 in 7,513
Best ever in a state: #250 in Michigan, 1911.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | #960 | 7 | 1 in 4,940 |
| Tennessee | #1,125 | 5 | 1 in 6,245 |
| North Carolina | #1,232 | 6 | 1 in 7,513 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Adah
- 235 spots since 2024 (#2,053 → #1,818)
- 131 spots since 2020 (#1,687 → #1,818)
- 305 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #1,818)
- Biggest jump: 145 spots in 1903 (#667 → #522)
- Biggest drop: 213 spots in 1908 (#726 → #939)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #277 (41 births)
- Births halved by 1908, 25 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 38 yrs · run 1880–1917
- Highest: 1 in 2,740 girls born in 1883 were named Adah (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,612 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 20.1% of all girls named Adah (828) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 330 | #277 (1883) | #345 |
| 1890s | 431 | #361 (1890) | #430 |
| 1900s | 271 | #522 (1903) | #703 |
| 1910s | 423 | #811 (1915) | #939 |
| 1920s | 340 | #1,092 (1921) | #1,423 |
| 1930s | 156 | #1,320 (1930) | #2,261 |
| 1940s | 79 | #2,079 (1943) | #3,223 |
| 1950s | 61 | #2,909 (1950) | #4,551 |
| 1960s | 29 | #5,289 (1965) | #6,335 |
| 1970s | 47 | #5,818 (1970) | #7,658 |
| 1980s | 44 | #7,111 (1988) | #8,582 |
| 1990s | 65 | #6,976 (1991) | #10,058 |
| 2000s | 433 | #2,548 (2009) | #4,263 |
| 2010s | 828 | #1,852 (2018) | #2,319 |
| 2020s | 586 | #1,687 (2020) | #2,011 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 18,031 of them was named Adah, which outranked 88.2% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,071Lani92
- #2,071Skai92
- #2,071Teegan92
- #2,085Adah91
- #2,085Anora91
- #2,085Aziyah91
- #2,085Berklee91
- #2,103Abrielle90
- #2,103Audree90
- #2,103Delani90
Tied with 17 names at #2,085; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.