Adannaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-dan-NAA-ya
- Origin
- Igbo
- UK rank, 2025
- #2,076 for girls
Adannaya is a girls' name of Igbo origin, meaning “her father's daughter”. In 2025 it ranked 2,076th for girls in the UK (14 babies).
What does Adannaya mean?
Igbo: extended form of Adanna
“her father's daughter”
Built from Igbo ada, 'daughter', and nna, 'father', like the shorter Adanna.
Is Adannaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Adannaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adannaya in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,076th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 20,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 262% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the UK were named Adannaya, making it the 2,076th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,110th.
2025 had the most girls named Adannaya of any year since it first appeared, in 2019.
Among girls in 2025, it was 2,006th in England and Wales.
Adannaya in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #2,076 |
| 2024 | 12 | #2,323 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,929 |
| 2022 | 5 | #4,168 |
| 2021 | 3 | #5,824 |
| 2020 | 5 | #4,110 |
| 2019 | 3 | #5,804 |
Nicknames for Adannaya
- Ada 1,129 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adannaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alaya, Ayah, Raya, Amara, Abeeha, Ayra, Amaya, Ayzal, Amal, Amira, Ayla, Safa
Names related to Adannaya
More Igbo names
Munachimso, Chimamanda, Jidenna, Kamsiyochukwu, Chizaram, Amarachi, Tobechukwu, Obi, Mazi, Adaeze, Chidera, Chidubem, Ifechukwu, Chisom, Tobenna, Chiziterem
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adannaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adannaya, updated 20 October 2026.