Adara

Meaning & origin●

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adara is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Sinhala given name46 records spelled Adara6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, India

  Also written Aadara, ආදර, ආදරී, ආදරි, Aadhara

• Thai given name45 records spelled Adara3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States

  Languages: Thai, Lao

  Also written อาดารา

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Adara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Latin, second-person singular present active imperative of adarō

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Welsh, to fowl, to catch or hunt birds

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Javanese, romanization of ꦲꦢꦫ

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In din, granary

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, zvaigzne Lielā Suņa zvaigznājā (ε), atrodas 430 ly attālumā, zvaigžņlielums 1,50

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 43 years between 1979–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Adara Michaelsb. 1963USAmerican pornographic actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 306 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adara?

We estimate roughly 5.3 thousand people bear Adara (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Adara have the most bearers?

Adara is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled adara.

Where is Adara most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adara is densest in Spain — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.

How common is Adara compared with other names?

In Puerto Rico, Adara is the 328th most common given name of 2,536 given names recorded there.

Is Adara a male or female name?

Adara is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Adara mean?

Recorded meaning: a language spoken in Nigeria