Adaora is an Igbo name from Nigeria — composed of ada (first daughter) and ora (community, people). The combined meaning is "daughter of all" or "daughter of the community" — a name that places the child within the wider family of the people.
Adaora is widely used in Igbo families and across the Nigerian diaspora. The novelist Adaora Lily Ulasi and the lawyer Adaora Mbelu-Dania are prominent bearers.
Adaora 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.
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In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adaora reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.