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Ada
Pronounced /ˈeɪdə/
Rank in 2024
#193
Born in 2024
1,563
Peak year
1918 · #123
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
Vintage revivalIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,563 girls were named Ada, about 1 in every 1,032.
- It peaked in 1918 with 1,943 babies, ranked #123.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 105,475 girls have been named Ada since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ada per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 1.8Greatest1901–27
- 0.7Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 36,047 babies, 1.76 per 1,000. Silent: 14,617 babies, 0.71 per 1,000. Boomers: 8,046 babies, 0.22 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,324 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,567 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,642 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 15,329 babies, 0.75 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈeɪdə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ada, CC BY-SA 4.0.