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 2018
Top girls' names in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
girls
1,701,074 girls got a published name in 2018; 1 in 340,215 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 13.6% of the 18,152 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,470 names at #15,682; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 24,215 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 86.1% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,937Thompson76
- #1,937Triton76
- #1,937Wendell76
- #1,959Adonai75
- #1,959Amin75
- #1,959Arnav75
- #1,959Camari75
- #1,981Crue74
- #1,981Demarion74
- #1,981Indiana74
Tied with 21 names at #1,959; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.