Adayah
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 19 babies a year in the US.
Adayah by the numbers
Adayah was given to 19 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.
What we can tell you about Adayah
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Adayah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Alayahexalted or ascent; a form of Aliyah109 in England and Wales (2025)
- Anayahgod has answered; a form of Hannah156 in England and Wales (2025)
- Aayahsign or verse of the Quran40 in England and Wales (2025)
- Adaiahornament of the lord33 in the US (2017)
- Adiyahornament of god; a form of Adaiah9 in the US (2017)
- Adarahnoble; exalted8 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Adayah
Names that are said the same way as Adayah, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
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