Adaiah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-DAY-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #4,066 for girls
Adaiah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “the Lord has adorned”. In 2025 it ranked 4,066th for girls in the US (35 babies).
What does Adaiah mean?
Hebrew: biblical name Adayah
“the Lord has adorned”
In the Bible Adaiah is a man's name, borne by the maternal grandfather of King Josiah.
Is Adaiah a girl's or a boy's name?
Adaiah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 35 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adaiah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,066among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 35about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Risingup 27% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 35 girls in the US were named Adaiah, making it the 4,066th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,451st. Its busiest year was 2024, with 41 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Adaiah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2021, 81% of the babies named Adaiah in the US were girls.
Adaiah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,066 |
| 2024 | 41 | #3,695 |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,025 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,451 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,652 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,311 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,336 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,105 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,270 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,125 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,415 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,751 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,254 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,562 |
Nicknames for Adaiah
- Ada 1,129 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adaiah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah Aaliyah Zaniyah Aziyah Azariah Kaliyah Alaiyah Taliyah Salem Zaliyah Zamira Azariyah
Names related to Adaiah
More Hebrew names
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Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adaiah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adaiah, updated 20 October 2026.