Adel

#4,352 for girls in 2025, 32 births · #4,707 for boys in 2025, 21 births
Given to boys 50.2% of the time

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Peak · boys
1992 · 35 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,508
since 1914

Adel over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201954peak #986, 1895peak #2,174, 1992girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#4,35232#4,70721
2024#5,14825#3,16138
2023#5,75221#3,22837
2022#5,98420#3,41234
2021#6,17419#3,65130
2020#5,85020#3,07437
2019#5,98620#3,20136
2018#5,78521#2,84842
2017#7,44215#3,00639
2016#6,90117#2,99339
2015#5,45824#2,86441
2014#5,62523#2,80542
2013#8,13514#3,58229
2012#5,55724#2,95439
2011#7,11817#2,90440
2010#11,2469#2,87441
2009#5,53725#3,27434
2008#7,40817#2,94640
2007#10,12911#2,44252
2006#8,23714#2,39851
2005#10,9219#2,65341
2004#8,25913#2,78837
2003#8,50512#2,84734
2002#10,2469#2,55638
2001#8,75811#2,74234
2000#13,1546#2,86431
1999—#2,86529
1998#8,01611#2,71130
1997#7,74211#2,44933
1996#8,13210#2,91125
1995#11,7836#2,50030
1994#13,4305#2,95124
1993#10,5887#2,34732
1992#11,7386#2,17435
1991—#2,60626
1990—#3,16619
1989#10,8476#2,98920
1988—#2,96118
1987#6,78810#2,55921
1986#7,1349#4,4579
1985#8,3187#3,07015
1984#5,53912#2,23223
1983#5,82411#3,07114
1982#9,2376#5,0037
1981#10,4115#3,60111
1980#5,91211#3,61511
1979#6,6969#2,89715
1978#6,9488#5,0596
1977#7,5677—
1976#5,21511#4,4187
1975#5,16111#3,9418
1974#8,7755#4,1907
1973#8,4235—
1972#6,5587—
1971#7,3886—
1970#6,3627—
1969#4,72310#3,5957
1968#6,2466—
1967——
1966—#3,9485
1965#3,73312—
1964#4,35510#4,0395
1963——
1962#5,2937#3,3057
1961#3,46014—
1960#3,51213—
1959#4,6258—
1958#3,54312—
1957#3,69611—
1956#3,18614—
1955#3,22513—
1954#5,1486—
1953#2,81215—
1952#3,04013—
1951#4,0118—
1950#3,42310—
1949#3,8928—
1948#2,82813—
1947#3,24011—
1946#2,59714—
1945#3,1329—
1944#4,0546#3,4305
1943#3,2499—
1942#4,1246—
1941#3,5597—
1940#4,3495—
1939#2,03816—
1938#2,34013—
1937#4,2555—
1936#1,87317—
1935#2,20614—
1934#3,1598—
1933#2,8689—
1932#3,5687#3,7765
1931#2,58111—
1930#2,02317#3,5926
1929#3,1379—
1928#2,49713—
1927#1,93520—
1926#1,93220—
1925#1,84722—
1924#2,40915—
1923#1,67225—
1922#1,78523—
1921#1,66826—
1920#1,88921#3,8156
1919#1,98918—
1918#1,53727#4,1795
1917#1,60523—
1916#1,53324—
1915#1,67220—
1914#1,74015#3,2645
1913#1,52815—
1912#1,84410—
1911#1,7928—
1910#1,52110—
1909——
1908#1,4399—
1907#2,0615—
1906——
1905#1,23810—
1904#1,4867—
1903#1,07611—
1902——
1901——
1900#1,4318—
1899——
1898#1,09810—
1897——
1896#1,5835—
1895#98611—
1894——
1893#1,4375—
1892——
1891——
1890——
1889——
1888#1,2765—
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First appearance
1914

The first year at least five boys were named Adel! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1914–1919, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Adel is popular in 1954

No state had 5 or more boys named Adel in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adel
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 1,546 spots since 2024 (#3,161 → #4,707)
  • 1,633 spots since 2020 (#3,074 → #4,707)
  • 1,843 spots since 2015 (#2,864 → #4,707)
Rise & fade · boys
78 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1914
  • Peaked 1992 at #2,174 (35 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 39,912
  • Highest: 1 in 39,912 boys born in 2007 were named Adel (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 81,337 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,174 in 1992, was only 1 in 57,069 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 26.0% of all boys named Adel (392) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s10#3,264 (1914)#3,722
1920s6#3,815 (1920)#3,815
1930s11#3,592 (1930)#3,684
1940s5#3,430 (1944)#3,430
1950s0——
1960s24#3,305 (1962)#3,722
1970s43#2,897 (1979)#4,101
1980s149#2,232 (1984)#3,356
1990s283#2,174 (1992)#2,668
2000s392#2,398 (2006)#2,751
2010s388#2,805 (2014)#3,003
2020s197#3,074 (2020)#3,539

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.

Adel in 1954

girls
#5,148
6 births · 1 in 323,653 girls

Top girls' names in 1954

  1. #1Mary68,019
  2. #2Linda55,371
  3. #3Deborah54,674
  4. #4Patricia49,149
  5. #5Susan47,162
  6. #6Debra45,896
  7. #7Barbara36,368
  8. #8Karen32,456
  9. #9Nancy30,270
  10. #10Cynthia27,615
  11. #5,148Adel6
More about 1954

girls

1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 323,653 of them was named Adel, which outranked 22.3% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adel
  1. #4,655Zanna7
  2. #4,655Zelia7
  3. #4,655Zoeann7
  4. #5,148Adel6
  5. #5,148Adrien6
  6. #5,148Afton6
  7. #5,148Agustina6
  8. #5,753Adana5
  9. #5,753Adrain5
  10. #5,753Adrean5

Tied with 604 names at #5,148; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1953
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,699Sherree#2,699 → #1,000
  2. ↑ 1,434Sabrina#2,236 → #802
  3. ↑ 932Valinda#1,738 → #806
  4. ↑ 748Sheree#1,071 → #323
  5. ↑ 421Sherie#1,248 → #827
Fallers
  1. ↓ 396Enola#948 → #1,344
  2. ↓ 311Ila#782 → #1,093
  3. ↓ 302Nancie#816 → #1,118
  4. ↓ 282Arline#904 → #1,186
  5. ↓ 269Candyce#944 → #1,213

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

See the top 100 for 1954 →