Adonai
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births · #1,942 for boys in 2025, 79 births
Given to boys 83.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 99 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,223since 1990
Adonai 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 | #7,885 | 13 | #1,942 | 79 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #1,685 | 99 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 | #2,147 | 67 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 | #2,094 | 71 |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 | #2,588 | 50 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | #2,069 | 68 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #2,339 | 58 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #1,959 | 75 |
| 2017 | — | #2,388 | 54 | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | #2,228 | 60 |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 | #2,661 | 45 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #2,562 | 47 |
| 2012 | #12,199 | 8 | #2,954 | 39 |
| 2011 | #10,374 | 10 | #3,605 | 29 |
| 2010 | #10,451 | 10 | #2,632 | 46 |
| 2009 | #8,454 | 14 | #2,946 | 40 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 | #3,615 | 26 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #4,005 | 22 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #5,667 | 12 |
| 2000 | — | #4,785 | 15 | |
| 1999 | — | #7,874 | 7 | |
| 1998 | — | #8,479 | 6 | |
| 1997 | — | #8,110 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adonai! It came in at #8,117, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990–1996, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Adonai
- 257 spots since 2024 (#1,685 → #1,942)
- 127 spots since 2020 (#2,069 → #1,942)
- 203 spots since 2015 (#2,145 → #1,942)
- Debuted 1990
- Peaked 2024 at #1,685 (99 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,403 boys born in 2024 were named Adonai (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 21,621 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.3% of all boys named Adonai (517) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2002, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 34 | #7,874 (1999) | #8,253 |
| 2000s | 238 | #2,811 (2007) | #4,335 |
| 2010s | 517 | #1,959 (2018) | #2,547 |
| 2020s | 434 | #1,685 (2024) | #2,088 |
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.
Adonai in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 220,132 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 37.5% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,257Zoraida9
- #11,257Zylie9
- #11,257Zynah9
- #12,199Adonai8
- #12,199Aaisha8
- #12,199Aamna8
- #12,199Aamori8
- #13,483Aalayiah7
- #13,483Aalaysia7
- #13,483Aaliayah7
Tied with 1,283 names at #12,199; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 48,640 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 79.3% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,905Wisdom40
- #2,905Xzander40
- #2,905Yitzchak40
- #2,954Adonai39
- #2,954Abbott39
- #2,954Adel39
- #2,954Adem39
- #3,002Abdurrahman38
- #3,002Abubakar38
- #3,002Adon38
Tied with 47 names at #2,954; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.