Meaning not yet researched.
Adan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 625 in 2025. Its best rank was #286 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #286 in 2004; #482 in 2025. About 99% of babies named Adan in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#482 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #286.
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Adan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 625 boys in 2025. Peak: #286 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 1,158 (2005).
In 2025, 625 US boys were named Adan, making it the 482nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 14 places from #496 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 622 boys named Adan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #286, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 1,158, in 2005. For comparison, it was #396 in 2015 and #844 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adan in 114 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1904 with 5 babies. In all, 31,624 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,856 babies named Adan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,797 US boys were named Adan; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 819. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,733 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adan ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #193 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aiden (259,912 babies since 1880), Aidan (121,158 babies since 1880), Ayden (91,630 babies since 1880) and Aden (22,517 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adine, Adynn and Adyaan are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adine (275), Adynn (91), Adyaan (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Adan in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 26 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 10 | #193 | #349 |
| Nevada | 14 | #213 | #177 |
| California | 175 | #214 | #218 |
| Arizona | 30 | #266 | #204 |
| Texas | 142 | #275 | #245 |
| Colorado | 21 | #305 | #378 |
| Idaho | 7 | #332 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #352 | #390 |
| Oregon | 10 | #378 | — |
| Illinois | 26 | #416 | #276 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #432 | #387 |
| Washington | 16 | #446 | #344 |
| Alabama | 11 | #450 | — |
| Indiana | 11 | #580 | #576 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #586 | #537 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #669 | #660 |
| Tennessee | 10 | #673 | #915 |
| Georgia | 13 | #711 | #542 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #767 | #478 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #776 | #562 |
| Florida | 18 | #809 | #837 |
| Ohio | 8 | #940 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,089 | #992 |
| New York | 10 | #1,121 | #794 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,233 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,222 | 625 | #482 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,314 | 622 | #496 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,223 | 643 | #471 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,036 | 711 | #436 |
| 2021 | — | — | 652 | #461 |
| 2020 | — | — | 631 | #473 |
| 2019 | — | — | 686 | #444 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,436 | 665 | #450 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,153 | 743 | #420 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,899 | 819 | #391 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,940 | 785 | #396 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,978 | 835 | #375 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,172 | 870 | #362 |
| 2012 | — | — | 867 | #354 |
| 2011 | — | — | 905 | #335 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,982 | 944 | #332 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,329 | 1,126 | #293 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,594 | 1,112 | #299 |
| 2007 | — | — | 1,080 | #307 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,203 | 1,099 | #302 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,521 | 1,158 | #287 |
| 2004 | — | — | 1,114 | #286 |
| 2003 | — | — | 629 | #409 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,470 | 556 | #443 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,536 | 493 | #477 |
| 2000 | — | — | 454 | #503 |
| 1999 | — | — | 454 | #487 |
| 1998 | — | — | 383 | #533 |
| 1997 | — | — | 404 | #507 |
| 1996 | — | — | 397 | #512 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,402 | 404 | #508 |
| 1994 | — | — | 360 | #539 |
| 1993 | — | — | 400 | #514 |
| 1992 | — | — | 406 | #499 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,157 | 359 | #533 |
| 1990 | — | — | 335 | #547 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,854 | 300 | #558 |
| 1988 | — | — | 270 | #563 |
| 1987 | — | — | 262 | #560 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,549 | 310 | #496 |
| 1985 | — | — | 241 | #569 |
| 1984 | — | — | 246 | #551 |
| 1983 | — | — | 234 | #548 |
| 1982 | — | — | 225 | #572 |
| 1981 | — | — | 252 | #529 |
| 1980 | — | — | 237 | #558 |
| 1979 | — | — | 182 | #637 |
| 1978 | — | — | 163 | #658 |
| 1977 | — | — | 186 | #616 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,290 | 185 | #596 |
| 1975 | — | — | 140 | #702 |
| 1974 | — | — | 130 | #718 |
| 1973 | — | — | 147 | #658 |
| 1972 | — | — | 110 | #757 |
| 1971 | — | — | 118 | #755 |
| 1970 | — | — | 109 | #788 |
| 1969 | — | — | 100 | #775 |
| 1968 | — | — | 83 | #814 |
| 1967 | — | — | 86 | #786 |
| 1966 | — | — | 82 | #805 |
| 1965 | — | — | 71 | #870 |
| 1964 | — | — | 77 | #867 |
| 1963 | — | — | 80 | #847 |
| 1962 | — | — | 94 | #786 |
| 1961 | — | — | 61 | #990 |
| 1960 | — | — | 66 | #927 |
| 1959 | — | — | 70 | #914 |
| 1958 | — | — | 64 | #950 |
| 1957 | — | — | 53 | #1,041 |
| 1956 | — | — | 57 | #986 |
| 1955 | — | — | 56 | #1,002 |
| 1954 | — | — | 36 | #1,242 |
| 1953 | — | — | 64 | #895 |
| 1952 | — | — | 65 | #870 |
| 1951 | — | — | 39 | #1,150 |
| 1950 | — | — | 65 | #844 |
| 1949 | — | — | 56 | #923 |
| 1948 | — | — | 39 | #1,145 |
| 1947 | — | — | 58 | #916 |
| 1946 | — | — | 69 | #799 |
| 1945 | — | — | 60 | #798 |
| 1944 | — | — | 52 | #878 |
| 1943 | — | — | 43 | #1,018 |
| 1942 | — | — | 47 | #970 |
| 1941 | — | — | 51 | #888 |
| 1940 | — | — | 38 | #1,050 |
| 1939 | — | — | 32 | #1,141 |
| 1938 | — | — | 35 | #1,095 |
| 1937 | — | — | 46 | #922 |
| 1936 | — | — | 40 | #989 |
| 1935 | — | — | 41 | #992 |
| 1934 | — | — | 46 | #931 |
| 1933 | — | — | 30 | #1,202 |
| 1932 | — | — | 45 | #980 |
| 1931 | — | — | 34 | #1,170 |
| 1930 | — | — | 50 | #958 |
| 1929 | — | — | 37 | #1,139 |
| 1928 | — | — | 47 | #1,003 |
| 1927 | — | — | 48 | #1,012 |
| 1926 | — | — | 26 | #1,432 |
| 1925 | — | — | 30 | #1,332 |
| 1924 | — | — | 30 | #1,355 |
| 1923 | — | — | 27 | #1,420 |
| 1922 | — | — | 21 | #1,695 |
| 1921 | — | — | 32 | #1,296 |
| 1920 | — | — | 25 | #1,505 |
| 1919 | — | — | 15 | #2,065 |
| 1918 | — | — | 20 | #1,710 |
| 1917 | — | — | 14 | #2,091 |
| 1916 | — | — | 17 | #1,771 |
| 1915 | — | — | 15 | #1,878 |
| 1914 | — | — | 5 | #3,266 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,619 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,206 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).