Adah
About Adah
Adah is a biblical name twice over—one was the mother of Jabal and Jubal, the other was a wife of Esau. The latter Adah and Esau’s descendants settled in Edom and became the Edomites. Adah is unrelated to the visually similar name Ada, which is Germanic in origin.
Pronounced AH-dah, this unusual biblical name—the first female name in Genesis after Eve and given to a number of women in the Old Testament—is a softer Ada equivalent.
As of October 2026, Adah ranked #1818 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #277 in 1883.
Editor's take: The name Adah is a girl's name of Hebrew origin meaning "ornament".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #2,351 | 78 | 43.7 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 | 50.4 |
| 2016 | #2,320 | 81 | 45.7 |
| 2017 | #2,183 | 87 | 50.4 |
| 2018 | #1,868 | 108 | 63.5 |
| 2019 | #1,887 | 106 | 63.2 |
| 2020 | #1,687 | 121 | 74.9 |
| 2021 | #2,100 | 90 | 54.8 |
| 2022 | #2,068 | 93 | 56.7 |
| 2023 | #2,372 | 76 | 47.4 |
| 2024 | #2,049 | 94 | 58 |
| 2025 | #1,818 | 110 | 68.4 |
World rankings
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Adah on lists
Famous Adahs
- Adah
Biblical figure, first wife of Lamech or Esau
- Adah Isaacs Menken
American actress
- Adah Belle Thoms
pioneering American WWI nurse
- Adah Sharma
Bollywood actress
Adah in pop culture
- Adah Ellen Price
character from Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible"
- Adah Keith
character in "A Life of Faith" book series