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 1924
No state had 5 or more boys named Adair in 1924, 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 1924
Top girls' names in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
girls
1,248,872 girls got a published name in 1924; 1 in 89,205 of them was named Adair, which outranked 57.4% of the 5,900 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,409Ysabel15
- #2,409Zelphia15
- #2,409Zina15
- #2,514Adair14
- #2,514Aileene14
- #2,514Almer14
- #2,514Angelene14
- #2,661Adalene13
- #2,661Aldean13
- #2,661Aldene13
Tied with 146 names at #2,514; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 188,790 of them was named Adair, which outranked 22.2% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).