Adanna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Father's daughter
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/aɗanna/(machine-generated) Swahili · model-generated
Adanna is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 20K(inferred from the name graph)
- FIFinland1 in 45K
- SESweden1 in 364K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 184 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Trinidad & Tobago, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Father's daughter
Cited for this meaning 1
- The book of African names
Where in the world
(measured from records)Adanna 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | listed | Adanna | 52 |
| US United States | 670 | 1 in 496K | 668 | Adanna | 184 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Adanna | 8 |
| FI Finland | 124 | 1 in 45K | 143 | — | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 822K | 3 | Adanna | 55 |
| SE Sweden | 28 | 1 in 364K | 28 | Adanna | 4 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | Adanna | 1 |
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: the african-names-stewart-1993 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Adanna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Igbo, Ibo: father's daughter.
as a nameAfrican Names
In Icelandic, definite genitive plural of Ada
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)46 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 668 | #16,723 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 143 | #2,251 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 124 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 28 | #19,977 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 10 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 10 | #37,211 |
| GB United Kingdom | NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present) | 2024 | 3 | #790 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #16,723 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 2 | #592 |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2023 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Adanna?
- In Swahili /aɗanna/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Adanna mean, and where does it come from?
- Father's daughter Recorded by The book of African names.
- Is Adanna a male or female name?
- Adanna is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Finland (DVV).
- In which country does Adanna have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Adanna in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adanna.
- How common is the name Adanna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 670 people named Adanna in 2020, about 1 in 496 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adannaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Adanna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.