Adora
Feminine · “adored”
Adora is built on the Latin adorare — to speak toward — and the root os means a mouth, so adoration is a form of address.
How old is the name Adora?
Adora first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Adora alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 2,200 people named Adora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adora most popular?
Adora peaked in 2021, reaching #1871 nationally. Today it ranks #2326, 455 places below that high. See the whole 2021 chart.
Where it comes from
From orare to Adora
The story of Adora
Adorare began as a word for speaking toward something — an address rather than an emotion — and the sense of worship grew from the formality of the act. Spanish and Italian use Adora and Adoración as devotional names. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
adored, beloved
From the Latin adorare, 'to address' or 'to worship', built on ad and orare, 'to speak', from os, oris, 'mouth'. The same root gives oral and oration. Adora is a Latinate feminine formation. The etymology is documented.
How the name formed
- orare
- adorare
- Adora
Related forms: Adoración · Adorah
Pronouncing Adora
uh-DOR-uh
Three syllables, stress in the middle. Said identically in every English accent.
Nicknames for Adora
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
- 1916
- Most girls named
- 2021106 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1871reached in 2021
- Change vs 2023
- −8.2%78 in 2025, from 85
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.
Adora in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adoración in Spanish — related form
- Adorah in English — spelling variant
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, New York.
Adoras among us
people named Adora are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 20,606 born in 2025 was named Adora
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Kyli test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adora's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kyli climbed just as high around 2004, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kyli's path sketches the road Adora is walking now.
Adora 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 Adora is headed
Adora 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.
Adora beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adora in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That adoration comes from a word for the mouth is a first-rate etymology.
- Dora and Addy are two short forms, both with real records.
- Three syllables of open vowels, which carries unusually well.
- It carries a claim about how the bearer is regarded.
- Adora and Aurora are close enough to confuse.
- It is rare enough to be asked about.
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Feminine · #2326 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Adoras are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,200 people named Adora are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adora in 2025?
- Adora ranks #2326 among US girl names in 2025, with 78 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adora?
- About 1 in every 20,606 US girls born in 2025 was named Adora — 78 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adora with classmates?
- Adora will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Adora
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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