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 | — | |
| 1982 | — | — | ||
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 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 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- New York#1,666 · 1 in 13,583
Best ever in a state: #726 in Maryland, 1999.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | #1,666 | 7 | 1 in 13,583 |
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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 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 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 87,992 of them was named Adama, which outranked 69.8% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,600Zaylie22
- #5,600Zoraya22
- #5,600Zuleyka22
- #5,800Adama21
- #5,800Aarya21
- #5,800Aaryn21
- #5,800Abagayle21
- #5,999Aariana20
- #5,999Aariona20
- #5,999Aasiyah20
Tied with 198 names at #5,800; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 124,832 of them was named Adama, which outranked 62.3% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,824Zackaria17
- #4,824Zamari17
- #4,824Zoe17
- #5,034Adama16
- #5,034Abdulaziz16
- #5,034Acxel16
- #5,034Adib16
- #5,278Aadit15
- #5,278Aaric15
- #5,278Aarnav15
Tied with 243 names at #5,034; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.