Given name & surname · also Spanish
Adonia
“God is my lord”
Adonia is used as a given name and a surname. One Greek interpretation is “God is my lord.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Greek interpretation is “God is my lord.”
Where it comes from
This spelling has been associated with Spanish and Greek naming traditions.
How it developed
Adonia is a feminine form of Adonis.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1964. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Adonia is a feminine form of Adonis. The history of Adonis gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Adonis is associated with a handsome young man loved by Aphrodite.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Adonia through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 344
- 0 boys · 344 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #14,982 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 14,982 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 425 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Adonia’s family of names
Adonia is a feminine form of Adonis. Adonia has a related form in Adonna. Adonia has a related form in Adonica.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 11
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Adoniasvariant
- Adonvariant
- Adonijahvariant
- Adoniahvariant
- Adonciavariant
- Adonicavariant
- Adonyavariant
- Adonnavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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