Adah

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Adah: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Adah: Recorded since 2004, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #718 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2005–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2005	#4798
2008	#3860
2009	#5556
2011	#5785
2012	#4838
2013	#3160
2014	#3514
2015	#4103
2016	#3214
2017	#2706
2018	#2499
2019	#2286
2020	#1449
2021	#1962
2022	#1849
2023	#2346
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 11 of the 22 years from 2004 to 2025.

In 2024: #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #3015 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2004–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #677 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded2017–2023
Highest recorded position: #355 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2017–2023).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #718 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Adah appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 17 ranked years and 142 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 2004.

Adah across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Adah's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#444 (2020)	#718 (2025)	11 of 22	47 (2004–2025)	8 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#4798 (2005)	#1449 (2020)	#3015 (2024)	17 of 20	142 (2005–2024)	21 (2020)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#355 (2017)	#355 (2017)	#391 (2023)	2 of 7	7 (2017–2023)	4 (2017)

Adah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Adah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	11	3 of 10	4
2010s	62	9 of 10	7
2020sbusiest	69	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 14 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Adah appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Adah's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2346	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1849	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1962	14	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1449	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2286	11	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#391	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#718	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#764	4	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#444	8	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#551	6	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#747	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#798	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2004 and 2025, ranked in 20 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 21 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 13 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Adaeze · #1502, 28y
Adalia · #2000, 15y
Adalie · #2574, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Lilyanna · #355, 22y
Pennie · #355, 19y
Sophia-Rose · #355, 18y
Caelum · #354, 24y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Erin-Rose · #355, 14y
Lilyanna · #355, 22y
Sophia-Rose · #355, 18y
Daniels · #354, 19y

Adah was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adah and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Adah without appearing here.

Adah moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1449 and #5493.
Therese Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4103 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1449 and #5493.
Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #2499 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2286 and #5591.
Denise Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2286 and #2040 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1449 and #4535.

Moved ahead of Adah

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3514 and #5691 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4103 and #2705.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2346 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1743.
Ivy Compare
In 2012 they stood at #798 and #937 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #747 and #304.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1449 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #1962 and #1785.

Moved the opposite way to Adah

Kristin Compare
Between 2005 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #4798 to #2346 while Kristin went from #2084 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 2005 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #4798 to #2346 while Therese went from #2084 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 2005 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #4798 to #2346 while Tracey went from #1500 to #5687.
Carol Compare
Between 2005 and 2021 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #4798 to #1962 while Carol went from #2438 to #3519.

Moved the same way as Adah

Blake Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #5556 to #3015 and Blake from #3936 to #432.
Eabha Compare
Between 2009 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #5556 to #3015 and Eabha from #2326 to #1262.
Meabh Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #5785 to #3015 and Meabh from #4049 to #952.
Rory Compare
Between 2011 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adah went from #5785 to #3015 and Rory from #5785 to #1603.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Adah

Adah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Adah across 3 official records

Adah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Adah at a glance

Adah across 3 official records

Adah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Adah appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Adah

Adah and the names beside it

Adah moved ahead of

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