Entry № 90 · Hebrew origin

Adah Adah — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AY-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"Ornament, adornment"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew Bible)

A name that means "ornament, adornment".

Adah (עָדָה) is the Hebrew word for "ornament" or "adornment" — from the same root as the modern Israeli name Adi. In Genesis 4:19, Adah was one of the first two named women in the Bible — the wife of Lamech.

Adah was used by Quaker and Mormon families. The famous Adah Isaacs Menken (1835-1868) was an American actress and poet.

Ornament. The first named woman after Eve.

The name in its native script.

עָדָה
Transliteration
ʿĀdāh
Pronunciation
/ ˈeɪ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adah stands.

Adah 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.

Adahs before her.

Real people
Adah Isaacs Menken
American actress, poet.
1835 – 1868
In fiction
Adah Price
Character in The Poisonwood Bible.
Barbara Kingsolver, 1998

Names connected to Adah.

The number behind Adah.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adah reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.