Adina
Feminine · Hebrew roots · “Hebrew: delicate”
Adina has been on the American record from the very first lists, quietly, without ever crowding a classroom. It appears in the Hebrew Bible, sits at the center of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore as the heroine Adina, and is an everyday name in Romania — three quite different rooms for one four-syllable word. Said aloud it opens and closes on the same soft vowel, with the weight in the middle.
How old is the name Adina?
Adina was already in use when US birth records began in 1880 — it is at least 145 years old. The typical Adina alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 6,900 people named Adina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adina most popular?
Adina peaked in 1880, reaching #836 nationally. Today it ranks #1250, 414 places below that high. See the whole 1880 chart.
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Where it comes from
From ʿAdin (Hebrew) to Adina
The story of Adina
The Hebrew Adina appears in the First Book of Chronicles, where it belongs to a man — Adina son of Shiza, a Reubenite among David's fighters. The name later settled as a feminine one in Hebrew usage, with Adin serving as the masculine counterpart, and it traveled with Jewish families to Europe and then to the United States, which is why it has been present in American records from the earliest ones onward. On a separate track, Romanian took Adina as a short form of Adelina and made it a name of its own. Donizetti's 1832 comic opera L'elisir d'amore gave it a third life on the stage, where Adina is the landowner the whole plot revolves around.
Meaningscholars disagree
Hebrew: delicate, gentle
Two roads meet at this spelling. The Hebrew name comes from the root ʿadin, 'delicate, gentle' — that reading is well established. In Romanian, where Adina is long familiar, it is generally treated instead as a short form of Adelina, which traces back to Germanic adal, 'noble'. Both are genuine; which one applies depends on the family.
How the name formed
- ʿAdinHebrew
- AdinaHebrew Bible
- Adina
Related forms: עֲדִינָה · Adina · Adina · Adena · Adinah · Adin
Pronouncing Adina
uh-DEE-nuh
The common American pronunciation puts the stress on the middle syllable. Hebrew and Romanian speakers open with a fuller first vowel — ah-DEE-nah — and both versions travel fine in the same family.
Nicknames for Adina
High
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
- 1880
- Most girls named
- 2025179 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #836reached in 1880
- Change vs 2023
- +11.2%179 in 2025, from 161
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.
Adina in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- עֲדִינָה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Adina in Romanian — same name
- Adina in Italian — same name
- Adena in English — spelling variant
- Adinah in English — spelling variant
- Adin in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: New Jersey, New York, California.
Adinas among us
people named Adina are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 8,979 born in 2025 was named Adina
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Adina 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 Adina is headed
Adina should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
High 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.
Adina beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adina in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Present in American records from the earliest ones and never absent since — long familiarity without ever being a crowd name.
- At home in Hebrew, Romanian, Italian and English, so it crosses borders without needing to be changed.
- Ready-made short forms in real use: Adi and Dina, both of which also work as full names.
- Four letters of vowel-consonant alternation that most English speakers read correctly on sight, even if the stress needs one correction.
- It sits close to Adena, Adinah, Adrina and Adaline, so expect to spell it out and to correct the occasional guess.
- Stress placement genuinely varies — uh-DEE-nuh in American English, ah-DEE-nah in Hebrew and Romanian. Worth deciding which one you will offer first.
- Anyone who looks the name up in a biblical concordance finds a man: Adina son of Shiza, one of David's warriors. The feminine use is later and thoroughly settled.
- Being rare means being explained. On the other hand, a child with this name will mostly not be sharing it with anyone in the room.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adinas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 6,900 people named Adina are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adina in 2025?
- Adina ranks #1250 among US girl names in 2025, with 179 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adina?
- About 1 in every 8,979 US girls born in 2025 was named Adina — 179 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adina with classmates?
- Adina will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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