Adams
#3,450 for boys in 2025, 33 births
- Peak · boys
- 1898 · 7 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,230since 1898
Adams over time
Rank among boys' names. Adams has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,450 | 33 |
| 2024 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | #3,177 | 38 |
| 2022 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #5,562 | 16 |
| 2020 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2017 | #4,224 | 24 |
| 2016 | #5,124 | 18 |
| 2015 | #7,066 | 11 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | #7,050 | 11 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,803 | 8 |
| 2009 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #5,901 | 14 |
| 2006 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #6,226 | 12 |
| 2004 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #6,013 | 11 |
| 2000 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #4,280 | 14 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #3,501 | 18 |
| 1992 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #4,476 | 12 |
| 1990 | #2,553 | 26 |
| 1989 | #2,027 | 35 |
| 1988 | #1,815 | 37 |
| 1987 | #1,760 | 37 |
| 1986 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #2,293 | 23 |
| 1984 | #1,630 | 36 |
| 1983 | #1,470 | 42 |
| 1982 | #1,890 | 29 |
| 1981 | #1,811 | 31 |
| 1980 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #2,310 | 21 |
| 1978 | #1,760 | 30 |
| 1977 | #2,270 | 20 |
| 1976 | #2,329 | 19 |
| 1975 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #2,459 | 16 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #2,819 | 12 |
| 1971 | #2,813 | 12 |
| 1970 | #3,521 | 8 |
| 1969 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1966 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #4,048 | 5 |
| 1962 | — | |
| 1961 | — | |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | — | |
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| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,964 | 8 |
| 1954 | — | |
| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
| 1952 | — | |
| 1951 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,681 | 5 |
| 1949 | — | |
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| 1939 | #3,113 | 6 |
| 1938 | #3,534 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,175 | 6 |
| 1936 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
| 1934 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,642 | 5 |
| 1932 | #3,361 | 6 |
| 1931 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,001 | 5 |
| 1929 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,843 | 9 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | — | |
| 1925 | — | |
| 1924 | #3,505 | 7 |
| 1923 | #3,822 | 6 |
| 1922 | #3,252 | 8 |
| 1921 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,286 | 5 |
| 1919 | #2,385 | 12 |
| 1918 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | — | |
| 1916 | #3,897 | 5 |
| 1915 | — | |
| 1914 | #2,101 | 10 |
| 1913 | #2,821 | 5 |
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| 1898 | #885 | 7 |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five boys were named Adams! It came in at #885, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1899–1913, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Adams is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#1,055 · 1 in 7,852
- New York#1,783 · 1 in 17,154
Best ever in a state: #621 in Ohio, 1989.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #1,055 | 12 | 1 in 7,852 |
| New York | #1,783 | 5 | 1 in 17,154 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
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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 Adams
- 234 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #3,450)
- 4,052 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #3,450)
- 3,616 spots since 2015 (#7,066 → #3,450)
- Debuted 1898
- Peaked 1898 at #885 (7 births)
- Births halved by 1899, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1898
- Highest: 1 in 17,526 boys born in 1898 were named Adams (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 51,760 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 26.7% of all boys named Adams (329) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 7 | #885 (1898) | #885 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 42 | #2,101 (1914) | #2,781 |
| 1920s | 40 | #2,843 (1928) | #3,653 |
| 1930s | 39 | #3,113 (1939) | #3,440 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 18 | #2,964 (1955) | #3,481 |
| 1960s | 46 | #2,861 (1969) | #3,529 |
| 1970s | 161 | #1,760 (1978) | #2,648 |
| 1980s | 329 | #1,470 (1983) | #1,860 |
| 1990s | 134 | #2,553 (1990) | #4,903 |
| 2000s | 119 | #5,035 (2003) | #6,645 |
| 2010s | 137 | #4,224 (2017) | #6,463 |
| 2020s | 158 | #3,177 (2023) | #4,535 |
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.
Adams in 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 45,015 of them was named Adams, which outranked 77.7% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,117Wilfredo39
- #3,117Witten39
- #3,117Zyheir39
- #3,177Adams38
- #3,177Abbott38
- #3,177Abimael38
- #3,177Abir38
- #3,228Adel37
- #3,228Adil37
- #3,228Ahad37
Tied with 50 names at #3,177; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.