Adonijah
Last seen for girls in 2009 at #17,294 · #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
Given to boys 94.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2014 · 33 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 483since 1982
Adonijah 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 | — | #6,446 | 13 | |
| 2024 | — | #5,904 | 15 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,479 | 13 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,587 | 10 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,235 | 17 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,153 | 18 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,540 | 16 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,685 | 12 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,726 | 12 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,297 | 33 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,180 | 23 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,356 | 22 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,994 | 25 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #4,748 | 20 |
| 2008 | — | #6,070 | 14 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | — | #6,460 | 12 | |
| 2005 | — | #6,226 | 12 | |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #5,813 | 13 |
| 2003 | — | #5,271 | 14 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,322 | 18 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,013 | 11 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #7,874 | 7 |
| 1998 | #12,426 | 6 | #6,314 | 9 |
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| 1996 | — | #6,496 | 8 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,868 | 9 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Adonijah! It came in at #5,619, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Adonijah
- 542 spots since 2024 (#5,904 → #6,446)
- 1,211 spots since 2020 (#5,235 → #6,446)
- 2,039 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #6,446)
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2014 at #3,297 (33 births)
- Births halved by 2016, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 58,208 boys born in 2014 were named Adonijah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 42.9% of all boys named Adonijah (207) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 6 | #5,619 (1982) | #5,619 |
| 1990s | 45 | #5,868 (1994) | #7,041 |
| 2000s | 146 | #4,322 (2002) | #5,496 |
| 2010s | 207 | #3,297 (2014) | #4,847 |
| 2020s | 79 | #5,235 (2020) | #6,490 |
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.
Adonijah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
Top boys' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 367,423 of them was named Adonijah, which outranked 14.4% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,983,573 boys got a published name in 2009; 1 in 99,179 of them was named Adonijah, which outranked 67.3% of the 14,540 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,582Zahmir21
- #4,582Zaylan21
- #4,582Zebulun21
- #4,748Adonijah20
- #4,748Abdulahi20
- #4,748Abdulmalik20
- #4,748Abhishek20
- #4,922Aarin19
- #4,922Aasim19
- #4,922Abbott19
Tied with 173 names at #4,748; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.