Adley

Where Adley comes from

Possibly a variant of Hadley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adley
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1810
    Adley H. Gladden born
    American general
  2. 1921
    First appearance
    #5,099 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1998
    Adley Rutschman born
    American professional baseball player
  4. 2001
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 2021
    Peak, #509
    611 babies named Adley — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Adley Rutschman · American professional baseball player, born 1998
  • Adley H. Gladden · American general, 1810–1862

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.