Adonijah
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #17,294 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 94.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 483since 1982
Adonijah 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 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,904 | 15 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,479 | 13 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,235 | 17 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,153 | 18 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,540 | 16 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,726 | 12 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,356 | 22 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,322 | 18 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #6,314 | 9 |
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| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adonijah! It came in at #5,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Adonijah is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#1,645 · 1 in 19,202
- New York#1,811 · 1 in 20,547
Best ever in a state: #1,645 in Florida, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #1,645 | 5 | 1 in 19,202 |
| New York | #1,811 | 5 | 1 in 20,547 |
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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 Adonijah
- 542 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #6,446)
- 1,211 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #6,446)
- 2,039 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2014 at #3,297 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 58,208 boys born in 2014 were named Adonijah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all boys named Adonijah (207) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 45 | #5,868 (1994) | #7,041 |
| 2000s | 146 | #4,322 (2002) | #5,496 |
| 2010s | 207 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,847 |
| 2020s | 79 | #5,235 (2020) | #6,490 |
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.
Adonijah in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 58,208 of them was named Adonijah, which outranked 76.6% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,234Vann34
- #3,234Weldon34
- #3,234Whitaker34
- #3,297Adonijah33
- #3,297Aadyn33
- #3,297Abimael33
- #3,297Adair33
- #3,371Aakash32
- #3,371Abisai32
- #3,371Abran32
Tied with 73 names at #3,297; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.