Adna

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country. Recorded meaning: The name Adna is of Hebrew origin and means "pleasure" or "delight," derived from the same root as the word 'Eden'.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 29K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 473
  • SISlovenia1 in 6.7K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)

≈8,100 people, est.

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 473 (inferred from the name graph)

Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

The name Adna is of Hebrew origin and means "pleasure" or "delight," derived from the same root as the word 'Eden'.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Adna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#555≈8,100 est.≈1 in 47392Adna7
BR Brazil—7,3301 in 29K7.3KAdna85
US United States—6831 in 487K640Adna40
SE Sweden—3381 in 30K338—2
SI Slovenia—3141 in 6.7K327—1
AT Austria—≈120 est.≈1 in 74K174——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); the ba-fzs-newborn-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adna is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Ådna, Ädnã, Adnå, Adnã

  • Croatian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Croatia, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian

    Also written Âdńa

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Ådna, Aďnâ

  • Arabic given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Syria, United States, Bosnia & Herzegovina

    Also written Ẵdna, Adnã

  • Swedish given name12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian, Danish

    Also written Aadna, Ådna

  • French given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United States, Congo - Kinshasa

    Also written Adnã

42 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(measured from records)

Adna 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 English, Any DNA sample recovered from biological samples not intended for DNA use, including historical and archeological samples.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, Biblical name

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Modesto

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Hungarian, third-person singular conditional present indefinite of ad

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18201840186018801900Adna Anderson, b. 1827Adna Chaffee, b. 1842Adna R. Johnson, b. 1860Adna Ferrin Weber, b. 1870Adna Wright Leonard, b. 1874Ernest Adna Back, b. 1880Adna R. Chaffee Jr., b. 1884

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(measured from records)

Attested in 46 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Adna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20227.3K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—7.3K#2,107
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6.9K#2,724
BR BrazilBrasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA)—6.8K#1,192
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020640#16,495
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—338#3,619
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020328—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—327#764
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025314#389
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024296#401
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023273#411
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022233#437

Reference works 3

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Adna mean, and where does it come from?
The name Adna is of Hebrew origin and means "pleasure" or "delight," derived from the same root as the word 'Eden'. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
Is Adna a male or female name?
Adna 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.
In which country does Adna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 8.1 thousand people named Adna in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adna.
How common is the name Adna?
In Brazil, the national register counted 7,330 people named Adna in 2022, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
How common is Adna compared with other names?
In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Adna is the 555th most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.

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curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adna

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adna” — the 555th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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