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 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 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 | — | |
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| 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 1991
No state had 5 or more girls named Adama in 1991, 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 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 208,334 of them was named Adama, which outranked 44.5% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,987Zaynah10
- #7,987Zita10
- #7,987Zohra10
- #8,588Adama9
- #8,588Adaline9
- #8,588Adelene9
- #8,588Adell9
- #9,336Aaisha8
- #9,336Aaryn8
- #9,336Abbigale8
Tied with 747 names at #8,588; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.