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 reduces to eight — the number of communal weight.