Adda
#6,838 for girls in 2025, 16 births
- Peak · girls
- 1881 · 20 births
- Debut · girls
- 14 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 987since 1880
Adda over time
Rank among girls' names. Adda has never cracked the top 300 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 | #6,838 | 16 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #11,231 | 8 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #13,006 | 7 |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | — | |
| 2004 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | — | |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 |
| 1963 | #6,592 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
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| 1957 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
| 1955 | — | |
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| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 |
| 1946 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,556 | 5 |
| 1944 | — | |
| 1943 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 |
| 1940 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,736 | 10 |
| 1938 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,735 | 10 |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #2,750 | 10 |
| 1930 | #4,047 | 6 |
| 1929 | #2,191 | 15 |
| 1928 | #2,768 | 11 |
| 1927 | #2,256 | 16 |
| 1926 | #2,474 | 14 |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 |
| 1924 | #1,926 | 21 |
| 1923 | #2,587 | 13 |
| 1922 | #2,109 | 18 |
| 1921 | #2,048 | 19 |
| 1920 | #1,751 | 23 |
| 1919 | #2,063 | 17 |
| 1918 | #2,029 | 18 |
| 1917 | #1,652 | 22 |
| 1916 | #1,630 | 22 |
| 1915 | #1,672 | 20 |
| 1914 | #1,665 | 16 |
| 1913 | #1,528 | 15 |
| 1912 | #1,719 | 11 |
| 1911 | #1,545 | 10 |
| 1910 | #1,634 | 9 |
| 1909 | #1,219 | 12 |
| 1908 | #1,261 | 11 |
| 1907 | #2,061 | 5 |
| 1906 | #1,553 | 7 |
| 1905 | #1,538 | 7 |
| 1904 | #1,877 | 5 |
| 1903 | #1,027 | 12 |
| 1902 | #972 | 13 |
| 1901 | #1,067 | 10 |
| 1900 | #1,231 | 10 |
| 1899 | #835 | 15 |
| 1898 | #920 | 14 |
| 1897 | #786 | 16 |
| 1896 | #950 | 12 |
| 1895 | #788 | 16 |
| 1894 | #744 | 16 |
| 1893 | #865 | 12 |
| 1892 | #796 | 14 |
| 1891 | #514 | 25 |
| 1890 | #578 | 20 |
| 1889 | #532 | 23 |
| 1888 | #476 | 27 |
| 1887 | #471 | 22 |
| 1886 | #491 | 20 |
| 1885 | #446 | 22 |
| 1884 | #479 | 18 |
| 1883 | #375 | 24 |
| 1882 | #446 | 17 |
| 1881 | #374 | 20 |
| 1880 | #449 | 14 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Adda was already there! It came in at #449, and was given to 14 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1938, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Adda is popular in 1917
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#640 · 1 in 18,683
Best ever in a state: #477 in Pennsylvania, 1913.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #640 | 5 | 1 in 18,683 |
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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 Adda
- 2,718 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #6,838)
- 6,168 spots since 2015 (#13,006 → #6,838)
- Biggest jump: 164 spots in 1897 (#950 → #786)
- Biggest drop: 396 spots in 1900 (#835 → #1,231)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1881 at #374 (20 births)
- Births halved by 1900, 19 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 1880–1899
- Highest: 1 in 4,598 girls born in 1881 were named Adda (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 100,454 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 21.0% of all girls named Adda (207) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 207 | #374 (1881) | #454 |
| 1890s | 160 | #514 (1891) | #778 |
| 1900s | 92 | #972 (1902) | #1,381 |
| 1910s | 160 | #1,528 (1913) | #1,714 |
| 1920s | 167 | #1,751 (1920) | #2,230 |
| 1930s | 69 | #2,735 (1937) | #3,407 |
| 1940s | 21 | #3,954 (1941) | #4,607 |
| 1950s | 6 | #5,325 (1956) | #5,325 |
| 1960s | 10 | #6,592 (1963) | #6,680 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #11,798 (1988) | #11,798 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 17 | #12,408 (2003) | #15,849 |
| 2010s | 33 | #10,689 (2017) | #14,125 |
| 2020s | 40 | #6,838 (2025) | #10,272 |
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.
Adda in 1917
Top girls' names in 1917
More about 1917
girls
1,081,267 girls got a published name in 1917; 1 in 49,149 of them was named Adda, which outranked 68.9% of the 5,310 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,605Vessie23
- #1,605Vola23
- #1,605Wenona23
- #1,652Adda22
- #1,652Alfred22
- #1,652Alvin22
- #1,652America22
- #1,708Alethea21
- #1,708Allyne21
- #1,708Annamay21
Tied with 55 names at #1,652; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.