Nameling

Ady

Girl · AD-ee · Germanic

Ady is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

What does Ady mean?

Germanic: spelling of Addie; pet form of Adelaide, Adeline or Addison

“noble”

A pet form of Adelaide and Adeline, both from Germanic adal, 'noble'; it was a common given name in 19th-century America.

Say it
AD-ee

Meaning borrowed from Addie.

Is Ady a girl's or a boy's name?

Ady is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Ady in the US?

Rank in 2025
#13,203among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Ady, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

2025 had more girls named Ady than any year since 2020.

Half of all the girls named Ady in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 224 girls in the US were given Ady or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #987, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.

1999Busiest: 14 in 20122025
Ady in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20235#15,188
20220–
20210–
202011#8,948
20196#13,793
20185#15,677
20176#14,120
20160–
201512#8,926
20140–
20137#13,145
201214#8,204
201112#9,146
20107#13,442
20097#13,698
200810#10,802
20077#13,918
200611#9,897
20059#10,915
20049#10,684
20037#12,401
20025#15,426
20017#12,049
20000–
19995#14,403

Names like Ady

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Ady

Names related to Ady

More Germanic names