Adaya
Feminine · “the Lord has adorned”
Adaya is a Hebrew name built from a word for an ornament — the Lord has adorned. It appears in Chronicles for several men and has come back in modern Israel as a woman's name, which is a fairly common journey for the shorter biblical names.
How old is the name Adaya?
Adaya first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Adaya is a kid of about 10 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,200 people named Adaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adaya most popular?
Adaya peaked in 2023, reaching #2124 nationally. Today it ranks #2895, 771 places below that high. See the whole 2023 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Adayah to Adaya
The story of Adaya
Adayah is a name in the genealogies of Chronicles and in Nehemiah, belonging to priests and to the grandfather of a king — a name in lists rather than in stories. Modern Hebrew naming has revived a great many of those quiet biblical names and given a number of them to daughters, since Hebrew names ending in -yah read as feminine to a modern Israeli ear whatever the text says. Adaya is one of those, and it reaches United States records with Israeli families and with American Jewish families choosing modern Hebrew names.
Meaning
the Lord has adorned
Hebrew Adayah joins adah, 'to adorn, to deck out', with Yah, the shortened divine name. The reading is documented and reasonably secure. The related Adah, without the divine element, is a separate biblical name meaning simply ornament, and it appears in Genesis. Adaya is the modern Israeli spelling of the longer form.
How the name formed
- Adayah
- Adaya
Related forms: עדיה · Adaiah
Pronouncing Adaya
ah-DYE-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Israeli Hebrew says a-da-YA, with the stress at the end, as Hebrew usually does. Both are heard in American use depending on the family.
Nicknames for Adaya
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 202390 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2124reached in 2023
- Change vs 2024
- −1.7%58 in 2025, from 59
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adaya in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עדיה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Adaiah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Georgia.
Adayas among us
people named Adaya are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 27,712 born in 2025 was named Adaya
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adaya
- #2895
- Adaya on the 2025 chart
- #787
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adaya went to 58 girls in 2025, but Adaia, Adaiah and Adayah are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 173, which makes it the 787th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,108 places above the chart.
- Adaia66
- Adaya58
- Adaiah35
- Adayah14
About 1 girl in 9,291 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 27,712 for Adaya itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kalen test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adaya's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kalen climbed just as high around 1994, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kalen's path sketches the road Adaya is walking now.
Adaya sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Adaya is headed
Adaya should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Adaya beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adaya in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Hebrew name with a clear and warm meaning behind it.
- Ada and Adi are both ready short forms and both are established names.
- Every sound is easy in English, so it survives the crossing intact.
- In the biblical text it belongs to men, which some families weigh and others do not.
- The stress falls differently in Hebrew and English, so the child will hear two versions.
- Adaya, Adaia and Adaiah all circulate and none is dominant.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adayas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Adaya are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adaya?
- Adaya is one of 4 recorded spellings. Adaia is the more common one — 66 births in 2025 against 58 for Adaya.
- How popular is the name Adaya in 2025?
- Adaya ranks #2895 among US girl names in 2025, with 58 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adaya?
- About 1 in every 27,712 US girls born in 2025 was named Adaya — 58 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adaya with classmates?
- Adaya will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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