girls:
559 births since 1895
#5157 (10th percentile)
boys:
12 births since 1916
#4574 (0th percentile)
overall:
571 births since 1895
#7168 (7th percentile)
The name Adna is the #7,168 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 571 recorded births since 1895. This represents the 7.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,157 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 559 births since 1895. For boys, it ranks #4,574 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 1916.
Adna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1895 (1895 for girls and 1916 for boys). Birth data for Adna is available in 36 out of the 129 years between 1895 and 2023 (36 years for girls and 2 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Adna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Adna reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #914) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 20 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Adna ranks #942 for girls (0.5% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 28.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Adna reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #544) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1922.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Adna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 97.3% confident that Adna is pronounced as AD-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AHD-nuh, at 2.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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