Adah
Adah is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 94 births. Its best rank was 277th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 940.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2020121 births
- Best rank
- #277in 1883
- Since 1880
- 4,010people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,010 girls have been named Adah in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 121 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 2010s alone account for 21%. It has spent 38 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 330 | |
| 1890s | 431 | |
| 1900s | 271 | |
| 1910s | 423 | |
| 1920s | 340 | |
| 1930s | 156 | |
| 1940s | 79 | |
| 1950s | 61 | |
| 1960s | 29 | |
| 1970s | 47 | |
| 1980s | 44 | |
| 1990s | 65 | |
| 2000s | 433 | |
| 2010s | 827 | |
| 2020s | 474 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Adah was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Adah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Corapeak 2019
- Senapeak 2023
- Matildapeak 2024
- Adapeak 1918
- Lillapeak 1918
- Bellepeak 1915
- Augustapeak 1915
- Mettapeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.