Adayah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ah-DYE-a
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Adayah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “adorned by God”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Adayah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Adaya; 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.
Meaning borrowed from Adaya.
Is Adayah a girl's or a boy's name?
Adayah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adayah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 16% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Adayah, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,483rd. Its busiest year was 2019, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had fewer girls named Adayah than any year since 2016.
Half of all the girls named Adayah 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 Adayah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,355, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Adayah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,391 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,686 |
| 2020 | 22 | #5,483 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,244 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,240 |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,454 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 8 | #12,671 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
Nicknames for Adayah
- Ada 1,129 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adayah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Hadassah Zaniyah Aziyah Zaliyah Alaiyah Naziyah Kaliyah Zamira Azariyah Taliyah Salem
Other spellings of Adayah
Names related to Adayah
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, “Adayah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adayah, updated 20 October 2026.