Baby name
FADING
🇧🇷 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 Adair
/uh · DAIR/
Meaning
“Pale or gray-haired”
Scottish Gaelic origin from 'Odhar' meaning 'pale' or 'gray-haired', used as surname converted to first name via trendy surname-as-first-name shift.
Nicknames
none
Vibe
earthy
How it ages.
Post-2015 unisex surname-to-first-name conversion; niche adoption among design/creative parents; unlikely to become mainstream.
The cultural moment.
Emerging slowly in Portland, Brooklyn, Toronto as ultra-modern choice; still rare, under 200 annual US births.