Adaora
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A daughter for her people
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adaora is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- NGNigeria≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 924K
- MTMalta≈1 in 52K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Nigeria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A daughter for her people.
Sources 1
- The African book of names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adaora 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 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 18K | listed | Adaora | 55 |
| US United States | 360 | 1 in 924K | 360 | Adaora | 146 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈70 est. | ≈1 in 937K | — | Adaora | 62 |
| SE Sweden | 14 | 1 in 729K | 14 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | 13 | 1 in 429K | 26 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Adaora | 2 |
| MT Malta | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Adaora | 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-book-names-hodari-2003 register; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adaora Lily Ulasib. 1932NGNigerian writer (1932-2016)
- Adaora Adimorab. 1956USAmerican doctor and academic (1956–2024)
- Adaora Udojib. 1968USAmerican journalist
- Adaora Onyechereb. 1984NGNigerian broadcast journalist, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, poet and author.
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 12 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 360 | #26,063 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 26 | #15,079 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 21 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #20,313 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2024 | 20 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 17 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 16 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 14 | #29,848 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 14 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 14 | — |
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
- What does the name Adaora mean, and where does it come from?
- A daughter for her people. Recorded by The African book of names.
- Is Adaora a male or female name?
- Adaora 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.
- In which country does Adaora have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Adaora in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adaora.
- How common is the name Adaora?
- In the United States, the national register counted 360 people named Adaora in 2020, about 1 in 924 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adaoraThe 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, “Adaora”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.