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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| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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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 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 123,636 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 54.4% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #7,491Zilah14
- #7,491Zuha14
- #7,491Zyani14
- #7,885Adonai13
- #7,885Aafiyah13
- #7,885Aamira13
- #7,885Aaralyn13
- #8,362Abella12
- #8,362Aby12
- #8,362Adaily12
Tied with 476 names at #7,885; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 21,621 of them was named Adonai, which outranked 86.1% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,932Kolbe80
- #1,932Rockwell80
- #1,932Zaidyn80
- #1,942Adonai79
- #1,942Bodee79
- #1,942Bowden79
- #1,942Cael79
- #1,959Boyd78
- #1,959Cross78
- #1,959Cyaire78
Tied with 16 names at #1,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.