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Gender
Feminine
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Origin of the Name Ada
Hebrew; Old High German
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Usage of the Name Ada
Jewish; English, German, Italian, Hungarian, Polish
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Meaning of the Name Ada
The name Ada has two meanings:
1. It is a modern form of the Hebrew name Adah meaning "adornment".
2. It is a short form of Adela, Adelaide, and other similar Germanic names. St. Ada was the 7th-century Roman Catholic saint, nun, and abbess. The name has been in common use since the late 18th century and is currently gaining popularity.
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Interesting Facts about Ada
- Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (1969) is a novel by Vladimir Nabokov whose main female character is named Ada.
- Ada Clare is the character in Bleak House (1852) by Charles Dickens.
- Ada is also the character in Edgar Allan Poe's Tamerlane (1827), inspired by Lord Byron's daughter Ada Lovelace, who later wrote the first computer algorithm and for whom the computer language Ada was named.
- There is a genus of South American orchids called Ada, and Eurema ada is a species of butterfly found in Borneo.
- There is an Ada River in New Zealand, and a bridge called the Ada Bridge in Serbia that, when completed, will be the longest single-pylon cable bridge in the world.
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Famous Bearers
Bearers of the name include Ada Cambridge (1844 - 1926), an English writer;
Ada Negri (1870 - 1945), an Italian poet and writer;
Ada Jones (1873 - 1922), an American singer;
Ada Maimon (1893 - 1973), an Israeli politician;
Ada Yonath (born 1939), an Israeli biochemist.
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Names Related to Ada
Refer to the following lists: names related to Ada (1) |
names related to Adela |
names related to Adelaide.
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