Adal

#7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births

Peak · boys
2000 · 33 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
408
since 1985

Adal over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Adal has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202011peak #2,736, 2000boys
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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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rankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#6,19914
2023#7,28911
2022#6,82812
2021#4,78020
2020#5,98014
2019#12,1455
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2016#7,60510
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2014#12,1085
2013#12,1365
2012#6,30613
2011#6,25613
2010#6,69812
2009#5,80015
2008#5,24917
2007#4,37522
2006#2,93238
2005#3,44728
2004#4,26420
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First appearance
1985

The first year at least five boys were named Adal! It came in at #6,523, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1985–1998, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Adal
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 995 spots since 2024 (#6,199#7,194)
  • 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980#7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
15 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1985
  • Peaked 2000 at #2,736 (33 births)
  • Births halved by 2009, 9 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 54,086
  • Highest: 1 in 54,086 boys born in 2006 were named Adal (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #2,736 in 2000, was only 1 in 59,515 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 58.6% of all boys named Adal (239) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s5#6,523 (1985)#6,523
1990s19#4,762 (1999)#7,197
2000s239#2,736 (2000)#4,027
2010s63#6,256 (2011)#9,036
2020s82#4,780 (2021)#6,378

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.

Adal in 2011

boys
#6,256
13 births · 1 in 146,096 boys

Top boys' names in 2011

  1. #1Jacob20,403
  2. #2Mason19,530
  3. #3William17,362
  4. #4Jayden17,019
  5. #5Noah16,883
  6. #6Michael16,823
  7. #7Ethan16,702
  8. #8Alexander15,717
  9. #9Aiden15,520
  10. #10Daniel15,307
  11. #6,256Adal13
More about 2011

boys

1,899,252 boys got a published name in 2011; 1 in 146,096 of them was named Adal, which outranked 56.4% of the 14,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adal
  1. #5,945Ziah14
  2. #5,945Zoe14
  3. #5,945Zyhir14
  4. #6,256Adal13
  5. #6,256Aashir13
  6. #6,256Aasim13
  7. #6,256Adonias13
  8. #6,578Aarit12
  9. #6,578Adden12
  10. #6,578Adley12

Tied with 321 names at #6,256; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2010
Risers
  1. 869Flynn#1,806#937
  2. 601Raylan#1,299#698
  3. 415Brantley#735#320
  4. 405Bowen#1,127#722
  5. 328Crosby#1,068#740
Fallers
  1. 336Jencarlos#928#1,264
  2. 308Keshawn#997#1,305
  3. 284Octavio#928#1,212
  4. 268Talan#976#1,244
  5. 242Antony#956#1,198

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

See the top 100 for 2011