girls:
103.9k births since 1880
#358 (94th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1885
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
104.2k births since 1880
#659 (91st percentile)
The name Ada is the #659 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 104,163 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 91.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 91.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #358 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 103,886 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1885.
Ada has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1885 for boys).
The name Ada has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Ada reached its peak popularity in 1880, achieving the 84.9% percentile (ranked #33) with 6,680 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 6,680 births per million (ranked 84.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1997, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Ada ranks #172 for girls (81.9% percentile) with 942 births per million, which is 14.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Ada reached its peak popularity in 1897, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #213) with 82 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 82 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ada".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Ada. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 88.6% confident that Ada is pronounced as AY-duh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-duh, at 11.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 D AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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