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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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 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- California#1,211 · 1 in 14,144
- Georgia#1,213 · 1 in 10,989
- Texas#1,760 · 1 in 23,510
Best ever in a state: #668 in Maryland, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #1,211 | 16 | 1 in 14,144 |
| Georgia | #1,213 | 5 | 1 in 10,989 |
| Texas | #1,760 | 8 | 1 in 23,510 |
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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)
- 203 spots since 2015 (#2,145 → #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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Adonai in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 357,020 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 14.2% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 29,949 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 84.7% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,132Kevon65
- #2,132Lake65
- #2,132Shlok65
- #2,145Adonai64
- #2,145Abhiram64
- #2,145Adryan64
- #2,145Arie64
- #2,169Aariz63
- #2,169Armin63
- #2,169Bradford63
Tied with 23 names at #2,145; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.