Ada
From Hebrew, where it means "noble". Fewer than 8,000 Polish women carry it, so meeting one sticks in memory, yet it keeps landing on new girls faster than that small base would suggest.
Ada Pronunciation
Ada is pronounced AH-dah (/ˈada/).
What Ada means
Where Ada comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Ada begins in Hebrew, where the older form Adah is recorded in the Book of Genesis as the name of two women, one married to Lamech, one to Esau. In Hebrew the word carried a sense close to adornment. Its short meaning today, noble, came to it by a different road.
That road runs through the Germanic root behind Adela, Adelajda, and the diminutive Adelka, all pointing to someone of noble birth. Ada settled among these forms and took on their color. A short name holds a borrowed meaning.
On a Polish class register it fits in three letters, quick to write and quick to call out. The variant Adel keeps the same family close. Whatever a parent knows of the etymology, the name works twice over: an ancient Hebrew Adah on one side, the szlachetna of Adela on the other, meeting in three letters.
When Ada celebrates name day
Ada appears 2 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 April.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Ada
1 in 2842 women in Poland is named Ada. 7,936 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #402 among female names.
Ada's popularity over time
205 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #179 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2001.
Where Ada is most popular
Ada is most popular in Łódź, 39% above the national average (142 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Podlaskie (+36%) and Lublin (+20%). It is least common in Lubusz and Silesian, 37% and 27% below average respectively.
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Łódź142 girls born+39%
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Podlaskie72 girls born+36%
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Lublin99 girls born+20%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian102 girls born+16%
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Masovian323 girls born+13%
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Lesser Poland204 girls born+12%
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Świętokrzyskie49 girls born+10%
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Greater Poland171 girls born−1%
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Warmian-Masurian55 girls born−5%
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Lower Silesian107 girls born−15%
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Pomeranian95 girls born−20%
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West Pomeranian54 girls born−20%
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Subcarpathian76 girls born−22%
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Opole28 girls born−24%
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Silesian134 girls born−27%
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Lubusz25 girls born−37%
Ada as a middle name
Ada is a first name for 7,936 women in Poland and a middle name for another 1,602, an 83/17 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 211th, between Gizela (1,606) and Vanessa (1,602).
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#209 Sofia1,614
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#210 Gizela1,606
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#211 Ada1,602
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#212 Vanessa1,602
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#213 Bolesława1,584