Adora
#2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · girls
- 2021 · 106 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,373since 1916
Adora over time
Rank among girls' names. Adora has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #2,326 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,434 | 74 |
| 2023 | #2,210 | 85 |
| 2022 | #2,253 | 83 |
| 2021 | #1,871 | 106 |
| 2020 | #2,034 | 91 |
| 2019 | #2,482 | 71 |
| 2018 | #2,404 | 75 |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 |
| 2015 | #3,989 | 37 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 |
| 2012 | #3,988 | 38 |
| 2011 | #3,723 | 41 |
| 2010 | #3,470 | 46 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 |
| 2008 | #3,645 | 44 |
| 2007 | #3,047 | 57 |
| 2006 | #3,176 | 52 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #3,265 | 46 |
| 2003 | #3,131 | 47 |
| 2002 | #3,069 | 47 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 |
| 2000 | #3,527 | 37 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 |
| 1998 | #4,238 | 26 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 |
| 1996 | #3,505 | 32 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 |
| 1993 | #3,877 | 27 |
| 1992 | #3,968 | 26 |
| 1991 | #5,181 | 18 |
| 1990 | #3,523 | 30 |
| 1989 | #3,893 | 25 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 |
| 1987 | #2,972 | 32 |
| 1986 | #2,845 | 33 |
| 1985 | #3,983 | 20 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,534 | 12 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #4,743 | 15 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 |
| 1978 | #5,958 | 10 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #5,959 | 8 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1965 | #4,831 | 8 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | — | |
| 1962 | #4,263 | 10 |
| 1961 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | #5,031 | 7 |
| 1958 | #4,520 | 8 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #4,376 | 8 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #2,577 | 16 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #5,244 | 5 |
| 1948 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 |
| 1946 | — | |
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| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
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| 1939 | #3,145 | 8 |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 |
| 1937 | — | |
| 1936 | #3,376 | 7 |
| 1935 | — | |
| 1934 | #3,159 | 8 |
| 1933 | — | |
| 1932 | — | |
| 1931 | #2,205 | 14 |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 |
| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
| 1916 | #3,552 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Adora! It came in at #3,552, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1921, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Adora is popular in 1987
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,783 · 1 in 22,373
Best ever in a state: #673 in Minnesota, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #1,783 | 5 | 1 in 22,373 |
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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 Adora
- 108 spots since 2024 (#2,434 → #2,326)
- 292 spots since 2020 (#2,034 → #2,326)
- 1,663 spots since 2015 (#3,989 → #2,326)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 2021 at #1,871 (106 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 15,480 girls born in 2021 were named Adora (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 23.0% of all girls named Adora (546) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 24 | #3,552 (1916) | #4,174 |
| 1920s | 29 | #3,655 (1922) | #4,463 |
| 1930s | 48 | #2,205 (1931) | #3,380 |
| 1940s | 19 | #3,801 (1943) | #4,463 |
| 1950s | 90 | #2,577 (1951) | #4,162 |
| 1960s | 83 | #3,959 (1966) | #4,653 |
| 1970s | 91 | #4,534 (1971) | #5,589 |
| 1980s | 200 | #2,845 (1986) | #4,847 |
| 1990s | 278 | #3,365 (1997) | #3,966 |
| 2000s | 448 | #3,047 (2007) | #3,402 |
| 2010s | 546 | #2,236 (2017) | #3,180 |
| 2020s | 517 | #1,871 (2021) | #2,188 |
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.
Adora in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 54,332 of them was named Adora, which outranked 77.6% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,915Velvet33
- #2,915Zainab33
- #2,915Zenia33
- #2,972Adora32
- #2,972Alida32
- #2,972Aliyah32
- #2,972Barbra32
- #3,031Allana31
- #3,031Brent31
- #3,031Brieann31
Tied with 58 names at #2,972; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.