Adair
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · #2,145 for boys in 2025, 67 births
Given to boys 55.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 100 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,797since 1914
Adair over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | #2,145 | 67 |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | #2,370 | 59 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 | #2,221 | 64 |
| 2022 | #6,229 | 19 | #2,793 | 46 |
| 2021 | #6,414 | 18 | #3,362 | 34 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2019 | #4,546 | 30 | #3,347 | 34 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #4,476 | 22 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 | #2,597 | 48 |
| 2016 | #6,186 | 20 | #3,358 | 33 |
| 2015 | #6,236 | 20 | #2,328 | 56 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 | #3,297 | 33 |
| 2013 | #4,543 | 31 | #2,594 | 46 |
| 2012 | #5,710 | 23 | #2,066 | 66 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 | #1,656 | 91 |
| 2010 | #5,977 | 22 | #2,037 | 67 |
| 2009 | #6,544 | 20 | #1,688 | 93 |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | #2,140 | 63 |
| 2007 | #6,552 | 20 | #1,562 | 100 |
| 2006 | #7,868 | 15 | #1,769 | 78 |
| 2005 | #7,138 | 16 | #1,801 | 72 |
| 2004 | #7,077 | 16 | #1,671 | 77 |
| 2003 | #7,580 | 14 | #1,815 | 65 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,556 | 38 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #3,228 | 27 |
| 2000 | #8,027 | 12 | #2,864 | 31 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #2,560 | 34 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #3,296 | 23 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #3,877 | 17 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #3,878 | 27 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #6,672 | 13 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | #4,447 | 13 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #5,949 | 15 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,694 | 20 | #7,178 | 6 |
| 1989 | #5,286 | 16 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #5,895 | 13 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #3,743 | 23 | — | |
| 1986 | #3,757 | 22 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #3,730 | 22 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 | #6,315 | 5 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | — | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | #5,563 | 11 | #4,554 | 7 |
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #4,935 | 6 |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
| 1973 | — | #4,054 | 7 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #4,986 | 5 |
| 1971 | — | #4,907 | 5 | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,456 | 8 | #3,595 | 7 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,266 | 15 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,864 | 19 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,539 | 23 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,184 | 10 | — | |
| 1959 | #4,300 | 9 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,651 | 19 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,095 | 14 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,325 | 12 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,106 | 13 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,391 | 18 | #3,066 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #3,137 | 11 | #3,316 | 6 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 | — | |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,401 | 14 | — | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | #3,560 | 5 |
| 1941 | #3,954 | 6 | — | |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,592 | 11 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,730 | 10 | — | |
| 1937 | #4,255 | 5 | #2,905 | 7 |
| 1936 | #3,103 | 8 | #3,147 | 6 |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #2,644 | 11 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 | — | |
| 1930 | #3,658 | 7 | — | |
| 1929 | — | — | ||
| 1928 | #3,436 | 8 | #3,076 | 8 |
| 1927 | #2,859 | 11 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,617 | 13 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,514 | 14 | #3,867 | 6 |
| 1923 | #3,125 | 10 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #5,009 | 5 | — | |
| 1921 | #2,762 | 12 | #3,869 | 6 |
| 1920 | #3,957 | 7 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | #3,115 | 8 |
| 1918 | #3,244 | 9 | #3,368 | 7 |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 | #2,732 | 9 |
| 1916 | #2,833 | 10 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,651 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adair! It came in at #2,651, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Adair is popular in 1914
No state had 5 or more boys named Adair in 1914, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Adair
- 225 spots since 2024 (#2,370 → #2,145)
- 2,395 spots since 2020 (#4,540 → #2,145)
- 183 spots since 2015 (#2,328 → #2,145)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2007 at #1,562 (100 births)
- Births halved by 2013, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,754 boys born in 2007 were named Adair (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,494 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 35.8% of all boys named Adair (644) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2014, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 42 | #2,651 (1914) | #3,193 |
| 1920s | 33 | #3,076 (1928) | #3,639 |
| 1930s | 18 | #2,905 (1937) | #3,231 |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,316 (1948) | #3,438 |
| 1950s | 17 | #3,066 (1951) | #3,515 |
| 1960s | 7 | #3,595 (1969) | #3,595 |
| 1970s | 47 | #4,054 (1973) | #4,948 |
| 1980s | 51 | #4,271 (1989) | #5,882 |
| 1990s | 140 | #2,560 (1999) | #4,602 |
| 2000s | 644 | #1,562 (2007) | #2,109 |
| 2010s | 496 | #1,656 (2011) | #2,776 |
| 2020s | 291 | #2,145 (2025) | #2,905 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adair in 1914
Top boys' names in 1914
More about 1914
boys
654,762 boys got a published name in 1914; 1 in 93,537 of them was named Adair, which outranked 29.5% of the 3,759 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,457Yancey8
- #2,457Yates8
- #2,457Zolton8
- #2,651Adair7
- #2,651Ad7
- #2,651Adalbert7
- #2,651Admiral7
- #2,915Abbot6
- #2,915Abelardo6
- #2,915Abundio6
Tied with 263 names at #2,651; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.