Adda
Adda was given to 16 girls in 2025, #6,837 among girls’ names; 987 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adda mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Adda is “a male given name from Hebrew אדום (“red”), equivalent to English Adam”
/ˈaða/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adda?
#6,837 among girls’ names, 2025
Adda rose from #13,024 in 2015 to #6,837 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 10.0 per million.
27 babies in 1888, the peak
Adda peaked in 1888, when 27 girls were given it, #476 among girls’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #6,837 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,561 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,479 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,239 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,697 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,024 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,087 | under 0.01 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,907 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,023 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,533 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 5 | #17,656 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,420 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,799 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #6,770 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 5 | #6,595 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,324 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,297 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,620 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,953 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,102 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 6 | #3,740 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,922 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,217 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,748 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,046 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 15 | #2,190 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 11 | #2,766 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,255 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,473 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,191 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 21 | #1,925 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,587 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 18 | #2,109 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 19 | #2,048 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 23 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 17 | #2,064 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 18 | #2,028 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 22 | #1,652 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,630 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 16 | #1,665 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,528 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,545 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 9 | #1,634 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 12 | #1,220 | 0.03 |
| 1908 | 11 | #1,261 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,061 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,553 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,877 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,027 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 13 | #972 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 10 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 10 | #1,230 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 15 | #835 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 14 | #920 | 0.05 |
| 1897 | 16 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1896 | 12 | #950 | 0.05 |
| 1895 | 16 | #788 | 0.07 |
| 1894 | 16 | #744 | 0.07 |
| 1893 | 12 | #865 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 14 | #796 | 0.07 |
| 1891 | 25 | #514 | 0.13 |
| 1890 | 20 | #578 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 23 | #532 | 0.13 |
| 1888 | 27 | #476 | 0.15 |
| 1887 | 22 | #472 | 0.15 |
| 1886 | 20 | #491 | 0.14 |
| 1885 | 22 | #446 | 0.17 |
| 1884 | 18 | #479 | 0.14 |
| 1883 | 24 | #375 | 0.21 |
| 1882 | 17 | #446 | 0.16 |
| 1881 | 20 | #374 | 0.22 |
| 1880 | 14 | #449 | 0.15 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adda, and how old are they?
An estimated 137 Americans named Adda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (14% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 4 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 439 people named Adda (424 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.4 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 179,198 babies since 1880, Adda is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 2,015 babies (<1%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Adda
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 Adda and names like it
- Compare Adda and AdaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1880sAdda peaked in 1888.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adda since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Adda: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1888The year the most babies were named Adda.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adda alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.