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Ada

OriginGerman or Turkish
Meaning"noble, nobility, or island"
GenderGirl

About Ada

Variation of Adah

1 syllable.

As of September 2026, Ada ranked #219 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #33 in 1880, Nameberry popularity #58.

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  • Ada Rehan

    American actress

  • Ada Adini

    stage name of Adele Chapman, American opera singer

  • Ada Scott Brown

    American blues singer

  • Ada Louise Comstock

    American women's education pioneer

  • Ada Louise Huxtable

    American architectural critic

  • (Augusta) Ada (Byron) King

    Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron; pioneer of computer programming

  • Ada Maris

    American actress

  • Ada Negri

    Italian poet

  • Ada Nicodemou

    Australian actress

  • Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith

    American singer

  • Ada Yonath

    Israeli crystallographer & winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  • Ada Oikari

    Finnish rhythmic gymnast

  • Ada Vox

    stage name of Adam Saunders, American singer and drag queen

  • Ada Benzine (b. 2017)

    daughter of American vlogger Craig Benzine and wife Chyna Pate

  • Ada James Akins (b. 2018)

    daughter of Thomas Rhett (Akins)

Ada in pop culture

  • Ada Monroe

    character in book/film "Cold Mountain"

  • Ada Wong

    character in the Resident Evil video games

  • Ada McGrath

    main character in the 1993 film The Piano

  • Ada Harris

    main character in book/film "Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris"

  • Ada Jaggs

    character in Mary Downing Hahn's "All The Lovely Bad Ones"

  • Ada Clare

    character in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens

  • Adelaida "Ada" Veen

    main character in Vladimir Nabokov's "Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle"

  • Ada Gillis

    main character in 1961 film "Ada," based on "Ada Dallas" by Wirt Williams

  • Ada Fife

    beloved of Reuben Light (then sacrificed by him to his God, the dynamo) in the Eugene O'Neill play The Dynamo (1929)

  • Ada Shelby

    character on TV's "Peaky Blinders"

  • Ada Keith

    character in the Mildred Keith series

  • Ada Shufflebotham or Sidebottom

    character played by British actor Roy Barraclough

  • Ada

    character in the video game Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness

  • Ada

    an android in the comic book series Alex + Ada

  • Ada Clover

    character in the BlazBlue video game series

  • Ada

    robot companion in the game Fallout 4 Automatron DLC.

  • Ada Thorne

    character on British TV series "Peaky Blinders"

  • Ada Versaillius

    character in anime "Pandora Hearts"

  • Ada Smith

    main character in book "The War That Saved My Life"

  • "Ada"

    song by The National

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