Ada
Ada is ranked 193rd among girls in 2024 (1,563 births). Its best rank was 33rd, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- #193down 15 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,5630.10% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,943 births
- Best rank
- #33in 1880
- Since 1880
- 105,475people given the name
The story in the numbers
105,475 girls have been named Ada in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,943 births — 0.17% of all girls recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 374 → 193).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1910s alone account for 14%. It has spent 129 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 33 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Ada | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 8,423 | |
| 1890s | 10,379 | |
| 1900s | 9,121 | |
| 1910s | 15,234 | |
| 1920s | 15,135 | |
| 1930s | 8,492 | |
| 1940s | 5,884 | |
| 1950s | 4,305 | |
| 1960s | 2,874 | |
| 1970s | 1,924 | |
| 1980s | 1,606 | |
| 1990s | 1,600 | |
| 2000s | 3,387 | |
| 2010s | 9,033 | |
| 2020s | 8,078 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Ada was the 123rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Ada
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hattiepeak 1918
- Matildapeak 2024
- Lettiepeak 2024
- Addiepeak 1920
- Ettapeak 1920
- Birdiepeak 2023
- Edapeak 1916
- Nettiepeak 1918
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.