Adda

Where Adda comes from

Adda hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #449 among girls — 14 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1881
    Peak, #374
    20 babies named Adda — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1888
    Adda Gleason born
    American actress
  4. 1900
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,231.
  5. 1972
    Adda Djørup born
    Danish poet
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Adda Djørup · Danish poet, born 1972
  • Adda Gleason · American actress, 1888–1971
  • Adda Ravnkilde · Danish writer, 1862–1883
  • Adda Chentouf · Algerian writer, born 1961

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.