Ada (first name)
Ada is a female given name .
Origin and meaning
The name Ada has two meanings: on the one hand from Old High German as a short form of names that are formed with "Adel-". The part of the name “adal-” is usually the short form of Adelheid and has the meaning “noble”, of “noble” descent, [noble] sex. On the other hand, Ada also comes from the Hebrew name עדה ('ādā), which is itself a short form of names with' dw / y "to decorate". So Ada has the meaning "that adorned by the Lord" or simply "beauty, ornament". In the Bible Ada appears as one of the wives of Esau in ( Gen 36.2 EU ) and as the wife of Lamech in Gen 4.19-23 EU .
name day
variants
- Aada
- Adda
- Adah
Name bearers
- Ada (Bible) , wife of Lamech
- Ada (Caria) (4th century BC), Carian satrap
- Ada (saint) (7th century), Benedictine nun, abbess at Le Mans, France
- Ada (8th / 9th century), author of the Ada manuscript
- Ada von Hunnington (12th century), Countess of Holland
- Ada of Holland , Countess of Holland
- Ada von Holland (Brandenburg) , Margravine of Brandenburg
- Ada of Holland (abbess) , abbess of Rijnsburg
- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852), British mathematician, after whom the Ada programming language was named
- Ada Christen (1839–1901), Austrian writer
- Ada von Gersdorff (1854–1922), German writer
- Ada Rehan (1857-1916), American actress
- Ada Leverson (1862-1933), English writer
- Ada Negri (1870–1945), Italian writer
- Ada Adler (1878-1946), Danish scholar
- Ada Battke (1879–1958), German writer
- Ada van Roon (1882–1953), German actress, screenwriter and film producer
- Ada Lessing (1883–1953), German adult education teacher
- Ada Smith (1894–1984), American vaudeville dancer and singer
- Ada Blackjack (1898–1983), sole survivor of an expedition to Wrangel Island
- Ada Egede-Nissen (1899–1981), Norwegian actress
- Ada Svedin (1900–1975), German actress
- Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013), American architecture critic and author
- Ada Brodsky (1924–2011), Israeli radio journalist and translator
- Ada “Sayonara” Pace (1924–2016), Italian racing driver
- Ada Yonath (* 1939), Israeli biologist
- Ada Gabrieljan (* 1941), Armenian painter and university lecturer
- Ada Kadelbach (* 1942), German musicologist and hymnologist
- Ada Boureïma (* 1945), Nigerien writer
- Ada Raev (born Ada Fischer ; * 1955), German art historian
- Ada Maris (born 1957), American actress
- Ada Kuchařová (* 1958), Czechoslovak orienteer
- Ada Pellert (* 1962), Austrian economist
- Ada Lai (* 1975), Chinese composer and music theorist
- Ada Rovatti (* 1976), Italian jazz musician
- Ada Dorian (* 1981), German writer
- Ada Hegerberg (* 1995), Norwegian soccer player
- Ada (musician) (actually Michaela Dippel ), German musician
- Ada Lüer (* 2001), German actress
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Duden: The large first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 .
- ↑ Wilfried Seibicke: First names. German language publisher. Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-88228-000-X .