Ada

Where Ada comes from

Short form of Germanic names beginning with adal (“noble”), such as Adelaide. Also Latinized form of Hebrew Adah. The programming language takes its name from Ada Lovelace.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ada
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1815
    Ada Lovelace born
    English mathematician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #33 among girls with 652 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1939
    Ada Yonath born
    Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate
  4. 2023
    The comeback
    Back to #179 after sinking to #1,250 in 1993.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Ada Lovelace · English mathematician, 1815–1852
  • Ada Yonath · Israeli structural biologist and Nobel laureate, 1939–2026
  • Ada Negri · Italian poet, writer, and teacher, 1870–1945
  • Ada Hegerberg · Norwegian footballer, born 1995
  • Ada Rohovtseva · Soviet and Ukrainian actress, born 1937

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.