Adi

Where Adi comes from

The dictionaries list Adi as a given name — a diminutive of the male given names Adrian, Aditya, and Adit, or other names beginning with Ad- — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1974
    First appearance
    #6,900 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2016
    Peak, #3,923
    38 babies named Adi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2018
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #7,025.
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the male given names Adrian, Aditya, and Adit, or other names beginning with Ad-.
  • A diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adrienne, and Aditi, or other names beginning with Ad-.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Adi hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.