Adan
#13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births · #482 for boys in 2025, 625 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2004 · 1,114 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 31,478since 1904
Adan over time
Rank among boys' names. Adan has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #482 | 625 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #496 | 622 |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #471 | 643 |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 | #436 | 711 |
| 2021 | — | #461 | 652 | |
| 2020 | — | #473 | 631 | |
| 2019 | — | #444 | 686 | |
| 2018 | #11,427 | 8 | #450 | 665 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #420 | 743 |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #391 | 819 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #396 | 785 |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #375 | 835 |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #362 | 870 |
| 2012 | — | #354 | 867 | |
| 2011 | — | #335 | 905 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #332 | 944 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #293 | 1,126 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #299 | 1,112 |
| 2007 | — | #307 | 1,080 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #302 | 1,099 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #287 | 1,158 |
| 2004 | — | #286 | 1,114 | |
| 2003 | — | #409 | 629 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #443 | 556 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #477 | 493 |
| 2000 | — | #503 | 454 | |
| 1999 | — | #487 | 454 | |
| 1998 | — | #533 | 383 | |
| 1997 | — | #507 | 404 | |
| 1996 | — | #512 | 397 | |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #508 | 404 |
| 1994 | — | #539 | 360 | |
| 1993 | — | #514 | 400 | |
| 1992 | — | #499 | 406 | |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #533 | 359 |
| 1990 | — | #547 | 335 | |
| 1989 | #10,847 | 6 | #558 | 300 |
| 1988 | — | #563 | 270 | |
| 1987 | — | #560 | 262 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #496 | 310 |
| 1985 | — | #569 | 241 | |
| 1984 | — | #551 | 246 | |
| 1983 | — | #548 | 234 | |
| 1982 | — | #572 | 225 | |
| 1981 | — | #529 | 252 | |
| 1980 | — | #558 | 237 | |
| 1979 | — | #637 | 182 | |
| 1978 | — | #658 | 163 | |
| 1977 | — | #616 | 186 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #596 | 185 |
| 1975 | — | #702 | 140 | |
| 1974 | — | #718 | 130 | |
| 1973 | — | #658 | 147 | |
| 1972 | — | #757 | 110 | |
| 1971 | — | #755 | 118 | |
| 1970 | — | #788 | 109 | |
| 1969 | — | #775 | 100 | |
| 1968 | — | #814 | 83 | |
| 1967 | — | #786 | 86 | |
| 1966 | — | #805 | 82 | |
| 1965 | — | #870 | 71 | |
| 1964 | — | #867 | 77 | |
| 1963 | — | #847 | 80 | |
| 1962 | — | #786 | 94 | |
| 1961 | — | #990 | 61 | |
| 1960 | — | #927 | 66 | |
| 1959 | — | #914 | 70 | |
| 1958 | — | #950 | 64 | |
| 1957 | — | #1,041 | 53 | |
| 1956 | — | #986 | 57 | |
| 1955 | — | #1,002 | 56 | |
| 1954 | — | #1,242 | 36 | |
| 1953 | — | #895 | 64 | |
| 1952 | — | #870 | 65 | |
| 1951 | — | #1,150 | 39 | |
| 1950 | — | #844 | 65 | |
| 1949 | — | #923 | 56 | |
| 1948 | — | #1,145 | 39 | |
| 1947 | — | #916 | 58 | |
| 1946 | — | #799 | 69 | |
| 1945 | — | #798 | 60 | |
| 1944 | — | #878 | 52 | |
| 1943 | — | #1,018 | 43 | |
| 1942 | — | #970 | 47 | |
| 1941 | — | #888 | 51 | |
| 1940 | — | #1,050 | 38 | |
| 1939 | — | #1,141 | 32 | |
| 1938 | — | #1,095 | 35 | |
| 1937 | — | #922 | 46 | |
| 1936 | — | #989 | 40 | |
| 1935 | — | #992 | 41 | |
| 1934 | — | #931 | 46 | |
| 1933 | — | #1,202 | 30 | |
| 1932 | — | #980 | 45 | |
| 1931 | — | #1,170 | 34 | |
| 1930 | — | #958 | 50 | |
| 1929 | — | #1,138 | 37 | |
| 1928 | — | #1,003 | 47 | |
| 1927 | — | #1,012 | 48 | |
| 1926 | — | #1,432 | 26 | |
| 1925 | — | #1,332 | 30 | |
| 1924 | — | #1,355 | 30 | |
| 1923 | — | #1,420 | 27 | |
| 1922 | — | #1,695 | 21 | |
| 1921 | — | #1,296 | 32 | |
| 1920 | — | #1,505 | 25 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,063 | 15 | |
| 1918 | — | #1,710 | 20 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,091 | 14 | |
| 1916 | — | #1,771 | 17 | |
| 1915 | — | #1,878 | 15 | |
| 1914 | — | #3,264 | 5 | |
| 1913 | — | — | ||
| 1912 | — | #1,619 | 10 | |
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| 1904 | — | #1,205 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adan! It came in at #1,205, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1904–1911, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Adan is popular in 1916
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#392 · 1 in 2,943
Best ever in a state: #113 in New Mexico, 2004.
Show every state
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| Texas | #392 | 13 | 1 in 2,943 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Adan
- 14 spots since 2024 (#496 → #482)
- 9 spots since 2020 (#473 → #482)
- 86 spots since 2015 (#396 → #482)
- Biggest jump: 280 spots in 1952 (#1,150 → #870)
- Biggest drop: 347 spots in 1954 (#895 → #1,242)
- Debuted 1904
- Peaked 2004 at #286 (1,114 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 85 yrs · run 1958–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,725 boys born in 2005 were named Adan (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,733 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- Its best rank, #286 in 2004, was only 1 in 1,782 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all boys named Adan (8,821) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,205 (1904) | #1,205 |
| 1910s | 96 | #1,619 (1912) | #2,057 |
| 1920s | 323 | #1,003 (1928) | #1,319 |
| 1930s | 399 | #922 (1937) | #1,038 |
| 1940s | 513 | #798 (1945) | #939 |
| 1950s | 569 | #844 (1950) | #989 |
| 1960s | 800 | #775 (1969) | #847 |
| 1970s | 1,470 | #596 (1976) | #689 |
| 1980s | 2,577 | #496 (1986) | #550 |
| 1990s | 3,902 | #487 (1999) | #518 |
| 2000s | 8,821 | #286 (2004) | #361 |
| 2010s | 8,119 | #332 (2010) | #386 |
| 2020s | 3,884 | #436 (2022) | #470 |
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.
Adan in 1916
Top boys' names in 1916
More about 1916
boys
890,080 boys got a published name in 1916; 1 in 52,358 of them was named Adan, which outranked 60.9% of the 4,535 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,698Wally18
- #1,698Wilma18
- #1,698Zenon18
- #1,771Adan17
- #1,771Albion17
- #1,771Almer17
- #1,771Alto17
- #1,849Abbott16
- #1,849Addie16
- #1,849Akira16
Tied with 77 names at #1,771; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.