Ada — #193 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Ada

The Social Security Administration has registered 105,475 babies named Ada between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Ada currently holds the #193 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 1,943 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ada performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 15,234 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Ada shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 4,932 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Ada in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ada in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 105,475 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.