Girls' name · since 1997

Adiah

177 babies named Adiah in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2007. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.

#21,047 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#11,377 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
177
born since 1997
2000s
peak decade

177 babies have been named Adiah since 1997, making it today's #11377 girls' name.

Adiah has 177 recorded births among girls since 1997, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #11377 as of the latest data, more common than 34% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1997 to 2025.

  • #21,047 of 72,339 all-time among girls
  • #11,377 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
  • 177 born since 1997
  • 2000s peak decade

Data updated Aug 2026

The verdict

According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Adiah ranks #21,047 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,377 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 177 born since 1997, peaking in the 2000s.

#21,047 of 72,339
all-time among girls
#11,377 of 17,297
2025 SSA year
177
born since 1997
2000s
peak decade
0%100%Median name50%34.2%
Adiah vs. every other girls name in current SSA rankings
Below the archive median
All-time archive position

Adiah's 177 recorded births place it above 70.83% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.

National only
State-record footprint

No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.

How Adiah compares

177 34th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls

Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.

Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data

How the numbers stack up

Adiah's all-time total is 53% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.

Metric Adiah Median girls name (Kyann) #1 girls name (Olivia)
All-time total births 177 376 567,345
Peak-year births 14 21 19,840

Adiah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number

Adiah splits its recorded history at 2009: 47% of all births land in the more recent half, 53% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1997 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2007 peak of 14 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.

Adiah popularity over time

Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1997–2025

Outside the top 1,000
Peak year (2007)
14
Annual births at peak, across 29 years of records
46810121416 19972000200420072010201520222025 8

Adiah by decade

2000s is the heaviest window (79 births, 45% of the file).

2000s was Adiah's strongest decade.

79 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 45% of all-time use.

Adiah births by decade

Total births in each ten-year window

births

What this shows Peak: 2000s at 79 births (45% of all-time use).

Source U.S. Social Security Administration · Baby Names As of August 2026

Frequently Asked Questions

How popular is the name Adiah?
Adiah has been given to 177 babies in the U.S. since 1997, according to SSA data. Its archive ordinal is #21,047 of 72,339 among girls' names (total births, highest first). Among girls in 2025, it is #11,377 of 17,297. 14 babies were born in 2007, its single highest year.
Where does Adiah sit in the SSA name archive?
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Adiah ranks #21,047 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #11,377 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. All-time ordinal matches browse popularity (total births DESC); the current ordinal uses the 2025 SSA file. See /methodology#corpus-placement.
When was Adiah most popular?
Adiah was most popular in the 2000s decade with 79 total births. The single peak year was 2007.
How long has the name Adiah been used?
Adiah has been recorded in Social Security data since 1997, spanning 29 years of data through 2025.
What names are similar to Adiah?
Names with a similar sound or spelling include Adina, Adilene, Aditi, Adilynn, and 4 more. These share a common prefix and are also used for girls.

What to do with Adiah's data

  • Adiah's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (79 total births) through the 2020s (38) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.

Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.

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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span

Two nationwide peer axes for Adiah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.

Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.

Data Sources

Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).

According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.

Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1997–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).

State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).

Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Adiah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.