Adara
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-DAR-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,004 for girls
Adara is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the virgins”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 1,004th for girls in the US (249 babies).
What does Adara mean?
Arabic: star name, also spelled Adhara
“the virgins”
Adara, or Adhara, is the second-brightest star in the constellation Canis Major; its name comes from Arabic.
Is Adara a girl's or a boy's name?
Adara is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 249 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adara in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 4,935th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 4 about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady up 20% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Adara, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,274th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 13 girls.
2025 had fewer girls named Adara than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Adara in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 10 girls in the UK were given Adara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,226, up from #4,935 for this spelling alone.
- Adhara 6
- Adara 4
Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.
Adara in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 4 | #4,935 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 8 | #3,082 |
| 2020 | 7 | #3,274 |
| 2019 | 5 | #4,214 |
| 2018 | 8 | #3,068 |
| 2017 | 13 | #2,210 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,788 |
| 2015 | 5 | #4,294 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 9 | #2,796 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 4 | #4,980 |
| 2010 | 5 | #4,220 |
| 2009 | 6 | #3,603 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #3,858 |
| 2006 | 5 | #3,724 |
| 2005 | 7 | #2,806 |
| 2004 | 5 | #3,356 |
| 2003 | 1 | #5,865 |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 6 | #2,587 |
| 2000 | 5 | #2,907 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #2,535 |
| 1997 | 3 | #3,991 |
How popular is Adara in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,004th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 249 about 1 in 6,500 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 260% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 249 girls in the US were named Adara, making it the 1,004th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,748th. It first appears in the records in 1979.
2025 had the most girls named Adara of any year since it first appeared, in 1979.
Half of all the girls named Adara in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,100 girls in the US were given Adara or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #303, up from #1,004 for this spelling alone.
Adara in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 249 | #1,004 |
| 2024 | 240 | #1,044 |
| 2023 | 242 | #1,043 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,521 |
| 2021 | 80 | #2,286 |
| 2020 | 60 | #2,748 |
| 2019 | 81 | #2,249 |
| 2018 | 62 | #2,743 |
| 2017 | 75 | #2,401 |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,934 |
| 2015 | 75 | #2,431 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,515 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,660 |
| 2012 | 82 | #2,286 |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,637 |
| 2010 | 67 | #2,670 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,751 |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,315 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,329 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,701 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,632 |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,616 |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,318 |
| 2002 | 61 | #2,551 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,232 |
| 2000 | 75 | #2,137 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,911 |
| 1998 | 70 | #2,080 |
| 1997 | 51 | #2,508 |
| 1996 | 57 | #2,311 |
| 1995 | 43 | #2,783 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,229 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,771 |
| 1992 | 35 | #3,213 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,363 |
| 1990 | 44 | #2,635 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,115 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,835 |
| 1987 | 17 | #4,656 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,456 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,315 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,409 |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 5 | #10,208 |
Names like Adara
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amira, Safa, Khadija, Aaliyah, Amina, Aisha, Amara, Arwa, Ayla, Hafsa, Ayah, Abeeha
Other spellings of Adara
Names related to Adara
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo, Liyana
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Adara: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adara, updated 20 October 2026.