Adlai

#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 87.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
1892 · 17 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
608
since 1891

Adlai over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201955peak #10,955, 2014peak #480, 1892girlsboys
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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#11,9327#10,6956
2024—#9,8947
2023—#8,9218
2022—#4,57022
2021#11,1468#8,1669
2020#13,4536#8,0679
2019—#6,10414
2018#15,6825#5,10618
2017#14,1246#5,78815
2016#14,3316#8,1469
2015—#5,05818
2014#10,9559#7,56210
2013—#4,62120
2012#14,9626#4,53321
2011#13,3477#5,67515
2010—#5,25117
2009#15,2426#6,80212
2008#17,5045#6,76312
2007—#4,80819
2006—#6,09413
2005—#6,63411
2004#12,7617#8,9277
2003—#8,6437
2002#15,4325#5,13114
2001—#8,3397
2000—#8,2097
1999—#7,1398
1998—#5,46611
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1996#13,5185#4,87812
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1994—#6,9687
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1991—#7,2716
1990—#6,4157
1989—#5,1659
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1986—#5,3327
1985—#5,1477
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1981—#5,4686
1980—#5,5256
1979—#5,3556
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1968—#3,6736
1967—#3,9665
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1957—#3,5526
1956—#1,67622
1955—#2,30212
1954—#3,1767
1953—#1,83618
1952—#1,18239
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1894—#1,0745
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First appearance
1891

The first year at least five boys were named Adlai! It came in at #841, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1894–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

Where Adlai is popular in 1955

No state had 5 or more boys named Adlai in 1955, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adlai
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 801 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #10,695)
  • 2,628 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #10,695)
  • 5,637 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #10,695)
  • Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1892 (#841 → #480)
  • Biggest drop: 369 spots in 1894 (#705 → #1,074)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1891
  • Peaked 1892 at #480 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1894, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1891–1893
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,179
  • Highest: 1 in 7,179 boys born in 1892 were named Adlai (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 25.8% of all boys named Adlai (157) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s37#480 (1892)#775
1900s0——
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1920s21#3,780 (1927)#4,153
1930s5#3,549 (1936)#3,549
1940s0——
1950s104#1,182 (1952)#2,287
1960s16#3,673 (1968)#3,892
1970s12#5,123 (1977)#5,239
1980s35#5,147 (1985)#5,327
1990s51#4,878 (1996)#6,356
2000s109#4,808 (2007)#7,035
2010s157#4,533 (2012)#5,784
2020s61#4,570 (2022)#8,386

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.

Adlai in 1955

boys
#2,302
12 births · 1 in 171,657 boys

Top boys' names in 1955

  1. #1Michael88,355
  2. #2David86,306
  3. #3James84,186
  4. #4Robert83,758
  5. #5John80,128
  6. #6William59,990
  7. #7Richard53,566
  8. #8Thomas45,855
  9. #9Mark42,255
  10. #10Steven37,847
  11. #2,302Adlai12
More about 1955

boys

2,059,889 boys got a published name in 1955; 1 in 171,657 of them was named Adlai, which outranked 47.7% of the 4,400 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adlai
  1. #2,219Vernal13
  2. #2,219Wheeler13
  3. #2,219Winslow13
  4. #2,302Adlai12
  5. #2,302Andrei12
  6. #2,302Andris12
  7. #2,302Ardie12
  8. #2,435Adonis11
  9. #2,435Albino11
  10. #2,435Alexandro11

Tied with 132 names at #2,302; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1954
Risers
  1. ↑ 808Davy#1,333 → #525
  2. ↑ 326Wyatt#985 → #659
  3. ↑ 323Moises#1,311 → #988
  4. ↑ 296Tad#1,068 → #772
  5. ↑ 286Rhett#1,122 → #836
Fallers
  1. ↓ 738Rahn#908 → #1,646
  2. ↓ 415Ricci#739 → #1,154
  3. ↓ 321Meredith#952 → #1,273
  4. ↓ 309Michial#985 → #1,294
  5. ↓ 282Arvin#973 → #1,255

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

See the top 100 for 1955 →