Adaya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-DYE-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #2,895 for girls
Adaya is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “adorned by God”. In 2025 it ranked 2,895th for girls in the US (58 babies).
What does Adaya mean?
Hebrew: Israeli name related to the biblical Adaiah
“adorned by God”
Related to Adaiah, a minor Old Testament name borne by several men in the Bible.
Is Adaya a girl's or a boy's name?
Adaya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 58 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adaya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 2,895th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 58 about 1 in 28,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 58 girls in the US were named Adaya, making it the 2,895th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,823rd. Its busiest year was 2023, with 90 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Adaya in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 138 girls in the US were given Adaya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #2,895 for this spelling alone.
Adaya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 58 | #2,895 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,819 |
| 2023 | 90 | #2,124 |
| 2022 | 64 | #2,689 |
| 2021 | 56 | #2,958 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,823 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,891 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,157 |
| 2017 | 49 | #3,247 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,082 |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,487 |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,324 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,165 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,266 |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,588 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,726 |
| 2009 | 70 | #2,613 |
| 2008 | 76 | #2,485 |
| 2007 | 50 | #3,329 |
| 2006 | 13 | #8,711 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,311 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,116 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Nicknames for Adaya
- Ada 1,129 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adaya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Alaya, Amaya, Aaliyah, Hadassah, Raya, Amira, Zamira, Anaya, Adira, Zaniyah, Zaya, Amoura
Other spellings of Adaya
Names related to Adaya
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Adaya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adaya, updated 20 October 2026.