Adal

#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births

Peak · boys
2000 · 33 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
408
since 1985

Adal over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Adal has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202001peak #2,736, 2000boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#6,19914
2023#7,28911
2022#6,82812
2021#4,78020
2020#5,98014
2019#12,1455
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2016#7,60510
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2014#12,1085
2013#12,1365
2012#6,30613
2011#6,25613
2010#6,69812
2009#5,80015
2008#5,24917
2007#4,37522
2006#2,93238
2005#3,44728
2004#4,26420
2003#4,27619
2002#3,34926
2001#3,84221
2000#2,73633
1999#4,76214
1998#9,6315
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five boys were named Adal! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1985–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Adal is popular in 2001

No state had 5 or more boys named Adal in 2001, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adal
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 995 spots since 2024 (#6,199 → #7,194)
  • 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2000 at #2,736 (33 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 54,086
  • Highest: 1 in 54,086 boys born in 2006 were named Adal (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,736 in 2000, was only 1 in 59,515 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 58.6% of all boys named Adal (239) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#6,523 (1985)#6,523
1990s19#4,762 (1999)#7,197
2000s239#2,736 (2000)#4,027
2010s63#6,256 (2011)#9,036
2020s82#4,780 (2021)#6,378

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.

Adal in 2001

boys
#3,842
21 births · 1 in 92,518 boys

Top boys' names in 2001

  1. #1Jacob32,573
  2. #2Michael29,689
  3. #3Matthew26,812
  4. #4Joshua26,024
  5. #5Christopher23,132
  6. #6Nicholas22,849
  7. #7Andrew22,422
  8. #8Joseph22,030
  9. #9Daniel21,013
  10. #10William20,110
  11. #3,842Adal21
More about 2001

boys

1,942,881 boys got a published name in 2001; 1 in 92,518 of them was named Adal, which outranked 68.8% of the 12,307 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adal
  1. #3,721Yuri22
  2. #3,721Zacharey22
  3. #3,721Zachari22
  4. #3,842Adal21
  5. #3,842Abrahim21
  6. #3,842Ahmari21
  7. #3,842Ahron21
  8. #3,974Abdulmalik20
  9. #3,974Aidin20
  10. #3,974Amando20

Tied with 131 names at #3,842; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2000
Risers
  1. ↑ 5,879Jaheim#6,316 → #437
  2. ↑ 1,128Imanol#2,049 → #921
  3. ↑ 730Jagger#1,391 → #661
  4. ↑ 539Maximus#850 → #311
  5. ↑ 461Daunte#1,429 → #968
Fallers
  1. ↓ 476Tyreek#914 → #1,390
  2. ↓ 466Tyrique#949 → #1,415
  3. ↓ 456Infant#765 → #1,221
  4. ↓ 423Deion#893 → #1,316
  5. ↓ 291Nicklaus#986 → #1,277

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2001 →