Adonai
- #7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- #1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
- Given to boys 83.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,223since 1990
Adonai over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #7,885 | 13 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #1,685 | 99 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #2,069 | 68 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | — | #2,388 | 54 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #2,228 | 60 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adonai! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Adonai is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,126 · 1 in 8,685
- Texas#1,217 · 1 in 10,297
- California#1,829 · 1 in 21,934
Best ever in a state: #668 in Maryland, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,126 | 11 | 1 in 8,685 |
| Texas | #1,217 | 17 | 1 in 10,297 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 21,934 |
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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 Adonai
- 257 spots since 2024 (#1,685 → #1,942)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2024 at #1,685 (99 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,403 boys born in 2024 were named Adonai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all boys named Adonai (517) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 34 | #7,874 (1999) | #8,253 |
| 2000s | 238 | #2,811 (2007) | #4,335 |
| 2010s | 517 | #1,959 (2018) | #2,547 |
| 2020s | 434 | #1,685 (2024) | #2,088 |
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.
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