Adama
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to girls 59.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 659since 1973
Adama over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
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| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Adama! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Adama is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more girls named Adama in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Adama
- 840 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #5,554)
- 386 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #5,554)
- 266 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #5,554)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2001 at #5,009 (23 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 67,356 girls born in 2020 were named Adama (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,009 in 2001, was only 1 in 78,288 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.7% of all girls named Adama (196) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 27 | #5,984 (1975) | #7,566 |
| 1980s | 36 | #8,153 (1984) | #9,352 |
| 1990s | 86 | #5,424 (1999) | #9,385 |
| 2000s | 192 | #5,009 (2001) | #6,547 |
| 2010s | 196 | #5,288 (2015) | #6,494 |
| 2020s | 122 | #5,168 (2020) | #5,927 |
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.
Adama in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 255,310 of them was named Adama, which outranked 25.4% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,649Yomaira7
- #7,649Yoshika7
- #7,649Yumeka7
- #8,562Adama6
- #8,562Aba6
- #8,562Adebola6
- #8,562Adi6
- #9,750Abena5
- #9,750Abigayle5
- #9,750Abrian5
Tied with 1,187 names at #8,562; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 273,640 of them was named Adama, which outranked 25.2% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).