Adama
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · #5,208 for boys in 2025, 18 births
Given to girls 59.5% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2001 · 23 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 659since 1973
Adama over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | #5,208 | 18 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #5,960 | 20 | #5,927 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,793 | 21 | #5,633 | 16 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #5,168 | 24 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #5,661 | 22 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #5,789 | 15 |
| 2015 | #5,288 | 25 | #5,746 | 15 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #5,997 | 14 |
| 2013 | #7,748 | 15 | #5,171 | 17 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #5,482 | 16 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #5,200 | 17 |
| 2010 | #7,513 | 16 | #7,591 | 10 |
| 2009 | #6,811 | 19 | #5,800 | 15 |
| 2008 | #8,965 | 13 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #5,097 | 28 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #5,709 | 23 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #5,800 | 21 | #5,034 | 16 |
| 2004 | #5,555 | 22 | #7,536 | 9 |
| 2003 | #9,048 | 11 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #5,897 | 19 | #5,725 | 12 |
| 2001 | #5,009 | 23 | #7,536 | 8 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #6,496 | 8 |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | — | #8,800 | 5 | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | #6,816 | 7 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1991 | #8,588 | 9 | — | |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | — | |
| 1989 | — | #6,229 | 7 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | — | |
| 1985 | — | #6,523 | 5 | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
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| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | — | |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #3,430 | 12 |
| 1979 | — | #3,168 | 13 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #5,059 | 6 |
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| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,984 | 9 | — | |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Adama! It came in at #8,423, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Adama
- 840 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #5,554)
- 386 spots since 2020 (#5,168 → #5,554)
- 266 spots since 2015 (#5,288 → #5,554)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2001 at #5,009 (23 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 67,356 girls born in 2020 were named Adama (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,009 in 2001, was only 1 in 78,288 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.7% of all girls named Adama (196) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2013, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 27 | #5,984 (1975) | #7,566 |
| 1980s | 36 | #8,153 (1984) | #9,352 |
| 1990s | 86 | #5,424 (1999) | #9,385 |
| 2000s | 192 | #5,009 (2001) | #6,547 |
| 2010s | 196 | #5,288 (2015) | #6,494 |
| 2020s | 122 | #5,168 (2020) | #5,927 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adama in 1987
Top girls' names in 1987
Top boys' names in 1987
More about 1987
girls
1,738,632 girls got a published name in 1987; 1 in 289,772 of them was named Adama, which outranked 25.9% of the 13,263 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,778Zora7
- #8,778Zuleyma7
- #8,778Zuly7
- #9,825Adama6
- #9,825Abbigayle6
- #9,825Abibail6
- #9,825Abiola6
- #11,325Aarica5
- #11,325Abbigale5
- #11,325Abel5
Tied with 1,499 names at #9,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,866,984 boys got a published name in 1987; 1 in 266,712 of them was named Adama, which outranked 33.0% of the 8,152 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,968Zamir8
- #4,968Zeshan8
- #4,968Zoltan8
- #5,459Adama7
- #5,459Abdur7
- #5,459Acey7
- #5,459Adewale7
- #6,089Aamir6
- #6,089Aaryn6
- #6,089Abayomi6
Tied with 629 names at #5,459; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.