Ada (first name)

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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

Name day is July 28th .

variants

  • Aada
  • Adda
  • Adah

Name bearers

Individual evidence

  1. a b Duden: The large first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 .
  2. Wilfried Seibicke: First names. German language publisher. Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-88228-000-X .