Ada
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ada is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Hong Kong it is the 31st most common given name. In English, recorded as Initialism of adenosine deaminase, the enzyme that specifically affects RNA. See ADAR.
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 489(inferred from the name graph)
- NGNigeria≈1 in 2.4K
- USUnited States1 in 7.8K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ada itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #812 (measured from records)
- 8 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 431 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 489 (inferred from the name graph)
≈350,000 named Ida, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Ida in US United States, NO Norway, SE Sweden and 2 more and Eda in TR Türkiye.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Hebrew Adah: 'ornament, beauty'; also conflated with Germanic adal- 'noble lineage'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Ada is read(measured from records)
Ada is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
Initialism of adenosine deaminase, the enzyme that specifically affects RNA. See ADAR.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish28%
- Turkish10%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Ada in Turkish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ada counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈350,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Ada | 58 |
| TR Türkiye | #286 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 837 | 2.6K | Eda | 124 |
| NG Nigeria | #487 | ≈90,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Ada | 106 |
| SE Sweden | #36 | 54,522as Ida | 1 in 187 | 55K | Ida | 139 |
| US United States | #417 | 42,677 | 1 in 7.8K | 42K | Ida | 431 |
| DK Denmark | #137 | 22,571as Ida | 1 in 260 | 23K | Ida | 159 |
| NO Norway | #72 | 20,093as Ida | 1 in 272 | 61K | Ida | 120 |
| HK Hong Kong | #31 | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 489 | — | Ada | 72 |
| FI Finland | #799 | 14,686as Ida | 1 in 379 | 32K | Ida | 42 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; TÜİK NIP — newborn names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Ada is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Ghana: town at the mouth of the Volta River.
as a nameAfrican Names
Teutonic or Latin: happy; of noble birth.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Portuguese, Adah (wife of Lamech)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ada Lovelaceb. 1815GBEnglish mathematician (1815–1852)
- Ada Smithb. 1894USAmerican entertainer (1894-1984)
- Ada Carrascob. 1912MXMexican actress (1912–1994)
- Phyllis Dillerb. 1917USnot in their usual nameAmerican stand-up comedian, actress, author, musician, and visual artist (1917–2012)
- Ada Louise Huxtableb. 1921USAmerican architecture writer (1921–2013)
- Zoe Caldwellb. 1933AUnot in their usual nameAustralian actress (1933–2020)
- Ada Rohovtsevab. 1937UASoviet and Ukrainian actress
- Ada Yonathb. 1939ILIsraeli chemist
- Ada Kokb. 1947NLDutch swimmer (born 1947)
- Ada Hegerbergb. 1995NONorwegian footballer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 122 sources across 61 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 42K | #1,008 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 15K | #314 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 5.6K | #309 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 4.7K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 4.5K | — |
| TR Türkiye | TÜİK NIP — newborn names | 2025 | 2.6K | #21 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 2.1K | #1,026 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 773 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 550 | #558 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 330 | #1,008 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 221 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Ada come from?
- Hebrew Adah: 'ornament, beauty'; also conflated with Germanic adal- 'noble lineage' Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What does the name Ada mean?
- In English, Initialism of adenosine deaminase, the enzyme that specifically affects RNA. See ADAR.
- Is Ada a male or female name?
- Ada is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Ada?
- In the etymology graph, Ali, Alicia and Alice are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Ada have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 348 thousand people named Ida in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ada?
- In the United States, the national register counted 42,677 people named Ada in 2020, about 1 in 7.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Ada compared with other names?
- In Hong Kong, Ada is the 31st most common given name of 23,276 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ada?
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ada” — the 31st most common given name in Hong Kong. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.