Adhira
Adhira was given to 37 girls in 2025, #3,904 among girls’ names; 385 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adhira by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adhira mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adhira is “a male given name from Sanskrit.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अधीर (adhīra).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adhira?
#3,904 among girls’ names, 2025
Adhira rose from #8,451 in 2015 to #3,904 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.3 to 23.0 per million.
43 babies in 2019, the peak
Adhira peaked in 2019, when 43 girls were given it, #3,551 among girls’ names. The 37 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,904 | 23.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,963 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,549 | 13.7 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,638 | 13.4 |
| 2021 | 31 | #4,410 | 18.9 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,678 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 43 | #3,551 | 25.6 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,676 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,770 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 34 | #4,251 | 19.2 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,451 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,494 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,015 | 5.1 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,364 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,983 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,027 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adhira a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adhira has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adhira: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adhira, and how old are they?
An estimated 383 Americans named Adhira and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 9. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,144 babies since 1880, Adhira is the seventh most given (2.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 37 of their 1,423 babies (2.6%), the sixth 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 Adhira
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 Adhira and names like it
- Compare Adhira and AdriaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdhira peaked in 2019.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adhira since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Adhira: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2019The year the most babies were named Adhira.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adhira alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.