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

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Peak · boys
1892 · 17 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
608
since 1891

Adlai over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #10,955, 2014peak #480, 1892girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#11,9327#10,6956
2024#9,8947
2023#8,9218
2022#4,57022
2021#11,1468#8,1669
2020#13,4536#8,0679
2019#6,10414
2018#15,6825#5,10618
2017#14,1246#5,78815
2016#14,3316#8,1469
2015#5,05818
2014#10,9559#7,56210
2013#4,62120
2012#14,9626#4,53321
2011#13,3477#5,67515
2010#5,25117
2009#15,2426#6,80212
2008#17,5045#6,76312
2007#4,80819
2006#6,09413
2005#6,63411
2004#12,7617#8,9277
2003#8,6437
2002#15,4325#5,13114
2001#8,3397
2000#8,2097
1999#7,1398
1998#5,46611
1997
1996#13,5185#4,87812
1995
1994#6,9687
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1991#7,2716
1990#6,4157
1989#5,1659
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1986#5,3327
1985#5,1477
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1981#5,4686
1980#5,5256
1979#5,3556
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1977#5,1236
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1968#3,6736
1967#3,9665
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1960#4,0385
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1957#3,5526
1956#1,67622
1955#2,30212
1954#3,1767
1953#1,83618
1952#1,18239
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1936#3,5495
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1927#3,7806
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1925#4,1975
1924#4,3475
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1920#4,2865
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1894#1,0745
1893#7059
1892#48017
1891#8416
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First appearance
1891

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
Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
  • Debuted 1891
  • Peaked 1892 at #480 (17 births)
  • Births halved by 1894, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 3 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 3 yrs · run 1891–1893
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,179
  • 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%)
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 25.8% of all boys named Adlai (157) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2025
  • Mostly boys until 2024, mostly girls since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s37#480 (1892)#775
1900s0
1910s0
1920s21#3,780 (1927)#4,153
1930s5#3,549 (1936)#3,549
1940s0
1950s104#1,182 (1952)#2,287
1960s16#3,673 (1968)#3,892
1970s12#5,123 (1977)#5,239
1980s35#5,147 (1985)#5,327
1990s51#4,878 (1996)#6,356
2000s109#4,808 (2007)#7,035
2010s157#4,533 (2012)#5,784
2020s61#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 1936

boys
#3,549
5 births · 1 in 207,441 boys

Top boys' names in 1936

  1. #1Robert58,500
  2. #2James54,694
  3. #3John47,683
  4. #4William39,398
  5. #5Richard33,494
  6. #6Charles29,101
  7. #7Donald28,639
  8. #8Thomas18,342
  9. #9George18,197
  10. #10David17,476
  11. #3,549Adlai5
More about 1936

boys

1,037,205 boys got a published name in 1936; 1 in 207,441 of them was named Adlai, which outranked 12.1% of the 4,037 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adlai
  1. #3,147Zachariah6
  2. #3,147Zebbie6
  3. #3,147Zeke6
  4. #3,549Adlai5
  5. #3,549Abdon5
  6. #3,549Adger5
  7. #3,549Adolpho5

Tied with 488 names at #3,549; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. 802Errol#1,708#906
  2. 644Sergio#1,584#940
  3. 601Brice#1,494#893
  4. 537Windell#1,390#853
  5. 529Kim#1,390#861
Fallers
  1. 1,082Stafford#980#2,062
  2. 889Darwyn#750#1,639
  3. 461Hunter#956#1,417
  4. 399Orvil#844#1,243
  5. 370Rosendo#956#1,326

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

See the top 100 for 1936