Ada

Ada meaning

Ada is an international and Christian girl's name of Hebrew origin.

Ornament; from a Hebrew root meaning to adorn

Also used to mean: noble

Ada is a short, old name with two roots. Etymonline traces the English name to Hebrew ʿĀdāh, which Strong's concordance glosses as "ornament", from a verb meaning to adorn; in Genesis it is the name of a wife of Lamech and of a wife of Esau. Ada is also used as a pet form of Germanic names that begin with adal-, "noble", such as Adelaide and Adeline, which is why name lists often give "noble". Its best-known bearer is Ada Lovelace, the nineteenth-century English mathematician often called the first computer programmer. Indian parents may like that adā (ادا) in Urdu and Hindi means grace, elegance and charm.

Source: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), Hebrew and Chaldee Dictionary, H5711 · entry ʿAdah (עָדָה) · See the entry · checked 25 Oct 2026

References: Strong's H5711, ʿAdah (biblehub.com) · Online Etymology Dictionary, Ada · Platts, Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), adā, p. 31 · Wikipedia, Ada Lovelace

Famous namesakes

• Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and computing pioneer

Popularity abroad

• #219 United States, girls 2025 (down 28 from 191 in 2024)
  US Social Security Administration
• #40 England and Wales, girls 2025
  Office for National Statistics

Official birth registrations. India publishes no national name statistics.

Spellings

Ada · Adah · Adda

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