Entry № 88 · Igbo origin

Ada Ada — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Igbo
Meaning
"Firstborn daughter (Igbo)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Igbo)

A name that means "firstborn daughter (igbo)".

Ada is the Igbo word for "firstborn daughter" — given to the eldest girl in a family.

Distinct from the Hebrew Ada/Adah (Genesis 4:19). Also Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) was the pioneer computer scientist.

Firstborn daughter. The honored position in Igbo culture.

The name in its native script.

Ada
Transliteration
Ada
Pronunciation
/ ˈɑː.dɑː /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Ada stands.

Ada does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Adas before her.

Real people
Ada Lovelace
Pioneer computer scientist.
1815 – 1852
In fiction

Names connected to Ada.

The number behind Ada.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Ada reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.