Adah — #2050 US girls' name
4,010 babies named Adah in U.S. Social Security records since 1880, with the highest year being 2020. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 88% of names given to girls today.
21% of everyone ever named Adah was born in this single decade.
121 babies were named Adah in 2020 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Adah
The Social Security Administration has registered 4,010 babies named Adah between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Adah currently holds the #2050 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 121 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Adah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 827 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Adah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 131 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Adah in 22 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Adah 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 4,010 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.
Adah at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Adah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1880
- Peak year (2020)
- 121
- Annual births at peak — across 145 years of records
Currently ranks #2050 among girls.
4,010 total births across 145 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2020 with 121 births in a single year.
Adah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 827 births that decade — 21% of Adah's all-time total
Adah decade highlights
- Peak decade 827 births
- Runner-up 474 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Adah's strongest decade
827 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 21% of all-time use.
Adah by state
Where Adah concentrates geographically — total births since 1880
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 131 | 3.3% |
| #2 | California | | 118 | 2.9% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 75 | 1.9% |
| #4 | Georgia | | 48 | 1.2% |
| #5 | Pennsylvania | | 42 | 1.0% |
| #6 | Missouri | | 35 | 0.9% |
| #7 | Virginia | | 33 | 0.8% |
| #8 | Tennessee | | 32 | 0.8% |
131 of 4,010 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 22 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 3.3% of nationwide
- California 2.9% of nationwide
- North Carolina 1.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.2% of nationwide
- Pennsylvania 1.0% of nationwide
Recorded in 22 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 3.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
Adah appears in 22 states. Explore state details →
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1880–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.