Adlai
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 87.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1892 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 608since 1891
Adlai 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | — | #9,894 | 7 | |
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,570 | 22 | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #8,166 | 9 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | #8,067 | 9 |
| 2019 | — | #6,104 | 14 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #14,124 | 6 | #5,788 | 15 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | — | #5,058 | 18 | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | — | #4,621 | 20 | |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #4,533 | 21 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | — | #5,251 | 17 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #6,802 | 12 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | — | #4,808 | 19 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,094 | 13 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,634 | 11 | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | — | #8,643 | 7 | |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | — | #8,339 | 7 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,139 | 8 | |
| 1998 | — | #5,466 | 11 | |
| 1997 | — | — | ||
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #4,878 | 12 |
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| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
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| 1986 | — | #5,332 | 7 | |
| 1985 | — | #5,147 | 7 | |
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| 1981 | — | #5,468 | 6 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #5,355 | 6 | |
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| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #3,673 | 6 | |
| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
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| 1960 | — | #4,038 | 5 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #1,676 | 22 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,302 | 12 | |
| 1954 | — | #3,176 | 7 | |
| 1953 | — | #1,836 | 18 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,182 | 39 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
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| 1920 | — | #4,286 | 5 | |
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| 1894 | — | #1,074 | 5 | |
| 1893 | — | #705 | 9 | |
| 1892 | — | #480 | 17 | |
| 1891 | — | #841 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adlai! It came in at #841, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1894–1926, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Adlai
- 801 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #10,695)
- 2,628 spots since 2020 (#8,067 → #10,695)
- 5,637 spots since 2015 (#5,058 → #10,695)
- Biggest jump: 361 spots in 1892 (#841 → #480)
- Biggest drop: 369 spots in 1894 (#705 → #1,074)
- Debuted 1891
- Peaked 1892 at #480 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1894, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1891–1893
- Highest: 1 in 7,179 boys born in 1892 were named Adlai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 25.8% of all boys named Adlai (157) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 37 | #480 (1892) | #775 |
| 1900s | 0 | — | — |
| 1910s | 0 | — | — |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,780 (1927) | #4,153 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,549 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 104 | #1,182 (1952) | #2,287 |
| 1960s | 16 | #3,673 (1968) | #3,892 |
| 1970s | 12 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,239 |
| 1980s | 35 | #5,147 (1985) | #5,327 |
| 1990s | 51 | #4,878 (1996) | #6,356 |
| 2000s | 109 | #4,808 (2007) | #7,035 |
| 2010s | 157 | #4,533 (2012) | #5,784 |
| 2020s | 61 | #4,570 (2022) | #8,386 |
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.
Adlai in 1894
Top boys' names in 1894
More about 1894
boys
115,768 boys got a published name in 1894; 1 in 23,154 of them was named Adlai, which outranked 13.3% of the 1,239 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 35.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 165 names at #1,074; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.