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How popular is the name Ada?
Births per year, rank history and how many Adas are alive today.
Ada (female) is currently the 40th most popular girls' name in England and Wales, with 1,049 babies given the name in 2024. This spelling of the name peaked in 1904, when around 3,500 babies were given the name, the 25th most popular that year. Ada's popularity is double-peaked: strongest in the early 1900s, having dropped out of the published rankings in between, with a second wave in the early 2020s. Numbers have been stable in recent years. At least 15,000 babies have been named Ada in England and Wales since 1904. Figures before 1996 are estimates. Ada is one spelling of a name also recorded as Ayda; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Ada you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Adas born in England and Wales are between 6 and 74, and there are at least 25,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 7.6% chance that at least one of them will be called Ada.
How many babies are named Ada each year?
Includes all spellings: Ada, Ayda. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Ada spelling rank?
Where does the Ayda spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Ada most popular?
Ada peaked in 1904, when around 3,500 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Ada?
At least 25,000 people named Ada in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Ada?
Most living Adas are between 6 and 74; the most common age is about 5.
Is Ada becoming more or less popular?
Recovering: it has climbed back after a dip in the rankings.