Adom

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #9,894

Peak · boys
1981 · 8 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
259
since 1974

Adom over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Adom has never cracked the top 4,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201974peak #4,509, 1981boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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rankbirths
2025
2024#9,8947
2023#6,22014
2022#9,8237
2021#5,77615
2020#6,29613
2019#4,95119
2018#7,61710
2017#5,78815
2016#8,8168
2015#7,06611
2014#12,1085
2013#7,02611
2012#9,7097
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2008#8,3249
2007#10,9216
2006#7,42710
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2004#9,9486
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2002#7,6438
2001#10,5565
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1999#8,7046
1998#7,5607
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1995#8,8685
1994#7,7706
1993#8,7005
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1990#8,1175
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First appearance
1974

The first year at least five boys were named Adom! It came in at #4,634, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1975–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Adom
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1974
  • Peaked 1981 at #4,509 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1982, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 94,432
  • Highest: 1 in 94,432 boys born in 2019 were named Adom (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 246,127 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #4,509 in 1981, was only 1 in 223,897 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 33.2% of all boys named Adom (86) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1970s11#4,634 (1974)#5,203
1980s18#4,509 (1981)#6,217
1990s44#7,560 (1998)#8,371
2000s44#7,427 (2006)#9,137
2010s86#4,951 (2019)#7,885
2020s56#5,776 (2021)#7,602

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.

Adom in 1974

boys
#4,634
6 births · 1 in 262,056 boys

Top boys' names in 1974

  1. #1Michael67,534
  2. #2Jason54,756
  3. #3Christopher48,585
  4. #4David41,786
  5. #5James41,334
  6. #6John37,612
  7. #7Robert37,005
  8. #8Brian34,449
  9. #9Matthew27,194
  10. #10William26,980
  11. #4,634Adom6
More about 1974

boys

1,572,334 boys got a published name in 1974; 1 in 262,056 of them was named Adom, which outranked 22.8% of the 6,004 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adom
  1. #4,190Zavier7
  2. #4,190Zebulon7
  3. #4,190Zoltan7
  4. #4,634Adom6
  5. #4,634Aamir6
  6. #4,634Aashish6
  7. #4,634Abayomi6
  8. #5,227Adante5
  9. #5,227Adaryl5
  10. #5,227Adedayo5

Tied with 592 names at #4,634; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1973
Risers
  1. 3,544Rashad#4,505#961
  2. 844Telly#1,312#468
  3. 398Jabari#1,312#914
  4. 356Ahmad#1,123#767
  5. 356Toma#1,238#882
Fallers
  1. 383Parrish#987#1,370
  2. 378Fredric#957#1,335
  3. 346Jory#753#1,099
  4. 301Vidal#834#1,135
  5. 277Pat#847#1,124

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

See the top 100 for 1974