Ada

A female given name: from a Germanic word meaning “noble.”.

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Ada is a feminine given name. One origin is the Germanic element "adel-" meaning "nobility", for example as part of the names Adelaide and Adeline. The name can also trace to a Hebrew origin, sometimes spelt Adah - עָדָה, meaning "adornment". Finally, the name occurs in Greek mythology and was in use in Ancient Greece.
The name has seen a slight increase in popularity in the United States in recent years, where it was the 646th most common name given to baby girls born there in 2007. It had been among the top 100 names for girls in the United States between 1880 and 1912 and remained in the top 1,000 names for girls until 1985. It first reappeared among the top 1,000 names for girls in 2004, after a 19 year absence. Finnish variant Aada was among the top ten most popular names given to newborn girls in Finland in 2013. The name is also commonly used in Norway, where it was the 66th most popular name for girls born in 2007.
Its increase in popularity has been attributed to the popularity of other "simple, old-fashioned names beginning with a vowel" such as Ava and Ella Some of its popularity might also be attributed to Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the daughter of George Gordon, Lord Byron, who has been called the first computer programmer by some historians. Ada, a computer programming language, was named in her honor. St. Ada was also the name of an early saint and of several medieval queens and princesses.

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Fem. proper name, from Hebrew Adha, literally "ornament."

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Noble kind; of the noble sort.

Eda, Adeline, Asad, Adam, Adan, Aadu, Adelaide

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Ada Lovelace	1815	English mathematician, considered the first computer programmer
2	Ada Wong	1974	Fictional character
3	Ada Nicodemou	1977	Greek-Australian Actor
4	Ada Choi	1973	Hong Kong actress
5	Ada Hegerberg	1995	Footballer
6	Ada Yonath	1939	Israeli crystallographer
7	Ada Colau	1974	Spanish activist
8	Ada Maris	1957	American actress
9	Ada Blackjack	1898	Iñupiat explorer
10	Ada Szulc	1989
11	Ada Jafri	1924	First female Urdu poet
12	Ada Louise Huxtable	1921	Architecture writer
13	Ada de la Cruz	1985	Dominican Republic beauty pageant
14	Ada of Caria		Satrap of Caria
15	Ada Maria Serra Zanetti	1941	Italian actress
16	Ada de Warenne	1120	Mother of Kings Malcolm IV and William I of Scotland
17	Ada Kukkonen	1990	Finnish film actor
18	Ada Jones	1873	American singer
19	Ada Leverson	1862	British writer
20	Ada Negri	1870	Italian poet
21	Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher	1924	Civil rights activist
22	Ada Carrasco	1912	Mexican actress
23	Ada King-Milbanke, 14th Baroness Wentworth	1871	British peeress
24	Alma Flor Ada	1938	Cuban-American author and poet
25	Ada Kok	1947	Dutch swimmer
26	Ada R. Habershon	1861	British hymnwriter
27	Ada Fisher	1947	American politician
28	Ada Deer	1935	American scholar
29	Ada of Huntingdon	1146	Scottish noblewoman
30	Ada Rehan	1859	American actress
31	Ada Limón	1976	American writer
32	Ada Clare	1834	American actress, writer, and feminist
33	Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz	1943	American Roman Catholic theologian and academic
34	Ada Brown	1890	American blues singer
35	Ada Roe	1858	English supercentenarian
36	Ada Pace	1924	Italian racecar driver
37	Ada Perkins	1959	Puerto Rican model
38	Ada Aharoni	1933	Egyptian-born Israeli poet, writer, lecturer and peace researcher
39	Ada Cambridge	1844	English-born Australian writer
40	Ada Dwyer Russell	1863	American actress
41	Ada Reeve	1874	British actor and singer
42	Ada Coleman
43	Ada Dietz	1882	American weaver and designer
44	Ada Copeland King	1860	Former American slave
45	Ada Lüer	2001
46	Ada Salter	1866	British socialist
47	Ada Calhoun	1976	American writer
48	Ada Katz	1928	American model
49	Ada Nield Chew	1870	British feminist
50	Ada Adler	1878	Danish classical scholar
51	Joseph Franklin Ada	1943	Politician
52	Ada Kepley	1847	First American woman to graduate from law school
53	Ada Falcón	1905	Argentine actress
54	Ada Rogovtseva	1937	Actress
55	Ada Chaseliov	1952	Brazilian actress
56	Ahmet Ada	1947	Turkish author (1947-2016)
57	Ada Dondini	1883	Actress
58	Ada	2000	German singer
59	Ada Albrecht		Author
60	Ada Williams	1913	American actress
61	Patrick Ada	1985	Footballer
62	Ada Comstock	1876	American women's education pioneer, president of Radcliffe College 1923-1943.
63	Ada English	1875	Irish politician and psychiatrist
64	Ada James	1876
65	Ada Parellada i Garrell	1967
66	Ada Boni	1881	Italian chef and food writer
67	Ada Ellen Bayly	1857	British writer
68	Ada Pellert	1962	Austrian economist
69	Ada Zhuang	1993	C-pop singer
70	Ada Vélez	1970	Puerto Rican boxer
71	Ada Crossley	1874	Australian singer
72	Ada Sofie Austegard	1963
73	Ada Evans	1872	Australian alwyer
74	Ada Wells	1863	New Zealand suffragette
75	Ada Mills	1912	American political activist
76	Ada Kramm	1899	Norwegian actress
77	Ada Sari	1886	Singer, actress, and educator
78	Ada Pometti	1942	Italian actress
79	Ada Hitchins	1891	English nuclear research assistant
80	Marie-Noëlle Ada	1991	Gabonese beauty pageant titleholder
81	Ada Hayden	1884	Botanist
82	Ada Goodrich Freer	1857	Psychic researcher
83	Ada Lee		Musician
84	Ada Howard	1829	American educator, president of Wellesley College
85	Ada Adini	1855	Operatic soprano
86	Ada Verdun Howell	1902	Australian poet
87	Ada Karmi-Melamede	1936	Israeli architect
88	Ada Besinnet	1890
89	Ada Blanche	1862	Actress and singer
90	Ada Cornaro	1881	Argentine actress
91	Francisco Ada	1934	Politician
92	St. Ada		Saint, nun, abbess
93	Ada Udechukwu	1960	Nigerian artist and poet
94	Ada Zanditon
95	Ada Leonard	1915	American bandleader
96	Ada den Haan	1941	Swimmer
97	Jacquette Ada	1991
98	Ada de Castro	1937
99	Ada Berger	1977
100	Ada Maimon	1893	Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai between 1949 and 1955
101	Ada Dyas	1843	British actress
102	Ada Mee	1946	German painter
103	Gordon Ada	1922	Australian microbiologist/immunologist
104	Ada Watson	1855	Wife of Australian Prime Minister Chris Watson
105	Ada Jack Carver Snell	1890	American writer
106	Ada F Kay	1929	British writer
107	Ada Rossi	1899
108	Ada Gentile	1947	Pianist and composer
109	Ada Andy Napaltjarri	1954	Warlpiri– and Luritja–speaking Indigenous artist from Australia's Western Desert region
110	Ada J. Graves	1870	English writer
111	Ada Cherry Kearton	1877	South African singer
112	Ada Lessing	1883
113	Ada Bakker	1948	Dutch tennis player
114	Gastón Ada	1988	Argentinian association football player
115	Ada Booyens	1961	South African race walker
116	Ada Vigliani	1954
117	Ada Lewis Sawyer	1892	American lawyer
118	Ada Summers	1861
119	Yeninur Ada
120	Ada Febbraio	1990	Italian actress
121	Ada Kouri Barreto	1917	Cuban revolutionary
122	Ada Sanchez	1994	American pornographic film actress
123	Ada Bruges	1897	Italian singer
124	Ada Marshania	1961	Georgian politician
125	Ada Palmer	1981
126	Ada Neschke-Hentschke	1942	Swiss-German historian of philosophy
127	Ada Feinberg-Sireni	1930	Israeli politician
128	Ada Colangeli	1913	Italian actress
129	Ada Rovatti	1976	Italian saxophonist
130	Ada Mae Sharpless	1899	American sculptor
131	Ada Christen	1839	Austrian writer
132	Ada Isensee	1944	German painter
133	Ada Cóncaro	1934	Argentinian cook
134	Ada Arnstad	1992
135	Ada Cavendish	1839	British actress
136	Ada Bromham	1880	Australian feminist
137	Ada Sawyer Garrett	1856	American socialite
138	Anta Livitsanou	1979	Greek actor and singer
139	Ada Tolla	1964	Italian architect
140	Ada Svetlova	1939	Latvian opera singer
141	Ada Norris	1901	Australian political activist
142	Ada de Luca	1949
143	Ada Kuchařová	1958	Czech orienteerist
144	Ada Pritchard	1898	Canadian politician
145	Ada Maza	1951	Argentine politician
146	Ada María Elflein	1880	Argentine writer
147	Ada Condeescu	1988	Romanian actress
148	Ada Milea	1975	Romanian singer and actress
149	Ada Louise Powell	1865	English calligrapher
150	Ada Buffulini	1912
151	Ada Brodsky	1924	Israeli journalist and translator
152	Ada Henry Van Pelt	1838
153	Ada Ward		British singer
154	Ada Patterson	1867	Print journalist
155	Ada Itúrrez de Cappellini	1959	Argentine politician
156	Ada Polak	1914	Norwegian art historian
157	Ada Swanwick	1915	English artist and art teacher
158	Ada Ferrer		American historian
159	Ada Mangilli	1863	Italian painter
160	Ada Maddocks	1927	British trade unionist
161	Ada Maria Pellacani	1902	Italian journalist and writer
162	Ada Benjamin	1994	Nigerian sprinter
163	Ada Battke	1879	German author
164	Ada Clendenin Williamson	1880	American illustrator
165	Ada Grilli Bonini	1947	Journalist
166	Ada Nordenová	1891	Czech opera singer
167	Ada Castells Ferrer	1968	Catalan writer and journalist
168	Ada Grootenboer-Dubbelman	1965	Dutch politician
169	Selman Ada	1953	Turkish composer, pianist and conductor
170	Ada Sarah Ballin	1863	British magazine editor and proprietor, and writer on health
171	Ada Škerl	1924	Slovene poet and writer (1924-2009)
172	Ada Bittenbender	1848
173	Ada Beveridge	1875	Australian Country Women's Association leader
174	Ada Kristel
175	Ada Svedin	1900
176	Ada Raev	1955	German university teacher
177	Ada Halenza	1900	German author
178	Ada Méndez		Argentinian actor
179	Ada von Voß	1884	German writer (1884-1941)
180	Ada Mae Edwards	1911	Speaker of St Kitts Assembly
181	İhsan Ada	1919	Turkish politician
182	Ada Mary à Beckett	1872	Australian educationist (1872-1948)
183	Ada Madssen	1917	Norwegian sculptor
184	Ada Haug Grythe	1934	Norwegian journalist
185	Ada von Maltzahn	1854	German author
186	Ada Pilgrim	1867	Healer
187	Ada Gertrude Paterson	1880	New Zealand school doctor, child health administrator and community worker
188	Ada Boerma-van Doorne	1947	Dutch politician
189	Ada Solomon	1968	Romanian film producer
190	Ada Lai	1975	Composer from Hong Kong
191	Ada Augusta Holman	1869	Australian journalist and novelist
192	Ada Vidovič Muha	1940	Slovene linguist
193	Ada Wińcza
194	Ada Rogato	1920	Pilot
195	Ada Ringen	1989	Norwegian biathlete
196	Ada Kretzer-Hartl	1897	German author
197	Ada Gobetti	1902	Italian journalist
198	Ada Benson	1840	(1840–1882), British headmistress and educationist
199	Ada Roon	1882	German actor, screenwriter and film producer
200	Ada Fijał	1976	Polish actress