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Baby name
Ada
Girl
Origin of the name
Ada is a short form of Germanic names beginning with adal, “noble,” such as Adelaide. The mathematician Ada Lovelace bore it.
Comeback name
106,905births since 1880
1910sgeneration
No. 123rank at its peak, in 1918
Where babies named Ada are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Ada is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Ada is most common in Kentucky (2.4 times), Mississippi (2.3) and West Virginia (2.2), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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