Adonay
#4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · boys
- 2018 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 554since 1989
Adonay over time
Rank among boys' names. Adonay 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,343 | 24 |
| 2022 | #3,879 | 28 |
| 2021 | #4,780 | 20 |
| 2020 | #4,426 | 22 |
| 2019 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | #4,466 | 22 |
| 2016 | #4,776 | 20 |
| 2015 | #4,711 | 20 |
| 2014 | #4,014 | 25 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #3,695 | 28 |
| 2010 | #4,678 | 20 |
| 2009 | #6,436 | 13 |
| 2008 | #5,487 | 16 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #5,525 | 15 |
| 2005 | #7,096 | 10 |
| 2004 | #6,520 | 11 |
| 2003 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #6,445 | 10 |
| 2000 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #6,530 | 9 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #6,407 | 8 |
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| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
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| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
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| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adonay! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Adonay is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#2,149 · 1 in 29,146
- California#2,248 · 1 in 34,419
Best ever in a state: #1,840 in California, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Texas | #2,149 | 6 | 1 in 29,146 |
| California | #2,248 | 6 | 1 in 34,419 |
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See more about Adonay
- 536 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,857)
- 431 spots since 2020 (#4,426 → #4,857)
- 146 spots since 2015 (#4,711 → #4,857)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2018 at #3,446 (32 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 56,755 boys born in 2018 were named Adonay (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.4% of all boys named Adonay (235) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 52 | #5,521 (1991) | #7,036 |
| 2000s | 124 | #4,785 (2000) | #6,136 |
| 2010s | 235 | #3,446 (2018) | #4,295 |
| 2020s | 138 | #3,879 (2022) | #4,434 |
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.
Adonay in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 56,755 of them was named Adonay, which outranked 75.6% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,373Zair33
- #3,373Zayed33
- #3,373Zorawar33
- #3,446Adonay32
- #3,446Abisai32
- #3,446Aeden32
- #3,446Akshar32
- #3,524Aadit31
- #3,524Aarish31
- #3,524Abdurrahman31
Tied with 77 names at #3,446; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.