Adewale
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 9 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 210since 1974
Adewale over time
Rank among boys' names. Adewale has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #8,987 | 8 |
| 2023 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #8,990 | 8 |
| 2021 | #12,146 | 5 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #8,140 | 9 |
| 2016 | #8,816 | 8 |
| 2015 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | #8,864 | 8 |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #9,693 | 7 |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
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| 2002 | #10,667 | 5 |
| 2001 | #9,243 | 6 |
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| 1998 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | — | |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #4,791 | 12 |
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| 1992 | #8,435 | 5 |
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| 1989 | #6,941 | 6 |
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| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #5,926 | 6 |
| 1985 | #5,785 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | #4,153 | 9 |
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| 1978 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
| 1975 | #5,464 | 5 |
| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adewale! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1979–1980, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Adewale is popular in 1978
No state had 5 or more boys named Adewale in 1978, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Adewale
- 3,021 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #12,008)
- 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #12,008)
- 78 spots since 2015 (#12,086 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 1978 at #3,857 (9 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 158,642 boys born in 1995 were named Adewale (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,857 in 1978, was only 1 in 182,426 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.7% of all boys named Adewale (54) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 32 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,818 |
| 1980s | 39 | #4,153 (1981) | #5,775 |
| 1990s | 29 | #4,791 (1995) | #7,498 |
| 2000s | 17 | #9,243 (2001) | #10,316 |
| 2010s | 54 | #8,140 (2017) | #10,190 |
| 2020s | 39 | #8,739 (2020) | #10,518 |
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.
Adewale in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 182,426 of them was named Adewale, which outranked 43.0% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,614Zahir10
- #3,614Zaire10
- #3,614Zalman10
- #3,857Adewale9
- #3,857Abdur9
- #3,857Agostino9
- #3,857Ajene9
- #4,157Abimael8
- #4,157Adrean8
- #4,157Airrion8
Tied with 299 names at #3,857; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.