Adaira
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- uh-DAIR-uh
- Origin
- Scottish
Adaira is a girls' name of Scottish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.
Where does Adaira come from?
Scottish: feminine elaboration of the Scottish surname Adair
Is Adaira a girl's or a boy's name?
Adaira is a girls' name.
How popular is Adaira in the US?
No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2016, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.
Half of all the girls named Adaira in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
Adaira in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,599 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,024 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,710 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,132 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,187 |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
Nicknames for Adaira
- Ada 1,129 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adaira
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira Aaliyah Safa Zahara Zamira Amoura Alaya Aliya Zaniyah Samira Abeeha Hadassah
Names related to Adaira
More Scottish names
Isla Finley Logan Arabella Cameron Bonnie Paisley Brody Carson Maxwell Brodie Finlay Blair Lennox Skye Knox
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, “Adaira: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adaira, updated 20 October 2026.