Adama
Adama is given to both girls and boys: 22 girls and 18 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,556 among girls’ names and #5,208 among boys’, #6,509 among all names counting both); 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,090 Americans named Adama and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 8 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adama by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adama?
#5,556 among girls’ names, 2025
Adama fell from #5,287 in 2015 to #5,556 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 13.7 per million.
41 babies in 2007, the peak
Adama peaked in 2007, when 41 babies were given it (28 girls, #5,096 among girls’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 98% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,556 | 18 | #5,208 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,395 | 18 | #5,240 |
| 2023 | 20 | #5,960 | 15 | #5,928 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,793 | 16 | #5,632 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,687 | 9 | #8,170 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,166 | 16 | #5,452 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,609 | 10 | #7,647 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,313 | 12 | #6,703 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,659 | 19 | #4,933 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,399 | 15 | #5,791 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,287 | 15 | #5,748 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,054 | 14 | #5,999 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,748 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 15 | #7,802 | 16 | #5,482 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,543 | 17 | #5,201 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,512 | 10 | #7,589 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,810 | 15 | #5,802 |
| 2008 | 13 | #8,966 | 13 | #6,395 |
| 2007 | 28 | #5,096 | 13 | #6,266 |
| 2006 | 23 | #5,709 | 10 | #7,425 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,802 | 16 | #5,031 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,554 | 9 | #7,539 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,050 | 10 | #6,713 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,892 | 12 | #5,721 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,006 | 8 | #7,534 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,578 | 8 | #7,415 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,419 | 10 | #6,042 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,100 | 8 | #6,842 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,334 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,521 | 8 | #6,495 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,076 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | under 5 | 5 | #8,809 | |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,715 | 7 | #6,818 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,737 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,582 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #12,967 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 7 | #6,226 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,825 | 7 | #5,454 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,916 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 5 | #6,528 | |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,154 | 10 | #3,922 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,014 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,114 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,095 | 12 | #3,429 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 13 | #3,169 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,561 | 6 | #5,063 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,296 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,983 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,427 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Adama a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,108 Americans recorded as Adama, 59% are girls and 41% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adama: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adama, and how old are they?
1,090 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,108 Americans ever recorded as Adama. The median Adama alive today is 16 years old; half are between 8 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,098 people named Adama (1,246 women and girls, 852 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 892 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.4 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 60 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 119 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 458 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 454 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Adama born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 7 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,270 | 0.1× |
Where Adama is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adama is most over-represented in New York: since 1973 it was given 3.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adama with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,271 babies since 1880, Adama is the most given (87% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 47 babies (85%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adama
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Adama and names like it
- Compare Adama and AdamaeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAdama peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adama since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Adama.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Adama alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.