Adara is usually traced to the Hebrew adar, meaning "noble" or "exalted", and it also exists as an Arabic name read as "chaste". It sounds like a sister of Amara and Adira and feels both ancient and fresh. In the United States Adara sat between number 2200 and 2900 for most of the 2010s, jumped to number 1043 in 2023 and reached number 1004 in 2025, its best rank so far.