Adarah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-DAR-a
- Origin
- Arabic
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Adarah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “the virgins”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Adarah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Adara; 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.
Meaning borrowed from Adara.
Is Adarah a girl's or a boy's name?
Adarah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adarah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,553among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fastup 362% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Adarah, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.
Half of all the girls named Adarah in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,100 girls in the US were given Adarah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #303, up from #5,553 for this spelling alone.
Adarah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,242 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 8 | #11,611 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
Names like Adarah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Nusaybah Hadassah Aziyah Zaliyah Abeeha Zaniyah Alaiyah Naziyah Sariyah Safa Samiyah
Other spellings of Adarah
Names related to Adarah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
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, “Adarah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adarah, updated 20 October 2026.