Adah is a first name for girls.
Adah is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,914 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,913 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Adah.
Adah is not an overly common name, in fact in some of the last 143 years it has been given so infrequently that it doesn't even show up in our statistics (here a name is only recorded in those years in which it was given to newborns at least five times). This was, for example, most recently the case in 1996, where the name Adah was given at most four times in the entire USA, perhaps even less or not even once. (If you are Adah and were born in the USA in 1996, please get in touch with us!) Before that, however, there was a time when the name was significantly more popular - way back in the 19th century, Adah even made it into the top 1,000 of our SmartGenius statistics of the most popular girls' names: In 1883, it ranked on position 272 - a popularity it has never reached again since then.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Adah was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Although the name Adah has a changeful history, it has clearly arrived in the present. In 2022, the name was given by young parents to their newborn children a remarkable 91 times and thus landed on position 1,888 in the SmartGenius ranking of the currently most popular female first names. However, the name is still so rare that the 91 girls with the name Adah, who are celebrating their second birthday this year, can rightly feel very special, because it is highly likely that in their kindergarten they will be the only children with this name.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Adah are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Adah in 21 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Adah live in North Carolina – here, one in 69,820 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 258,245 will turn around if you call her first name Adah.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.
With four letters, the name Adah is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.
If your name is Adah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Adah, you can simply say:
Apple
Dinosaur
Apple
Hat
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Adah
Adah
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
A
D
A
H
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
A
D
A
H
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Adah sounds like this:
