Meaning not yet researched.
Adel: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 32 in 2025. Its best rank was #986 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #986 in 1895; #4,355 in 2025. About 60% of babies named Adel in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,355 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #986.
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Adel: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 32 girls in 2025. Peak: #986 in 1895 · most girls in one year: 32 (2025).
In 2025, 32 US girls were named Adel, making it the 4,355th most common girls’ name of the year, up 794 places from #5,149 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 25 girls named Adel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #986, reached in 1895. The most girls given the name in a single year was 32, in 2025. For comparison, it was #5,465 in 2015 and #3,424 in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Adel, making it the 4,708th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,547 places from #3,161 in 2024. That is 17 fewer than the 38 boys named Adel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,174, reached in 1992. The most boys given the name in a single year was 52, in 2007. For comparison, it was #2,865 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adel in 125 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 3,002 US babies have been given the name, 50% of them girls and 50% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 572 babies named Adel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 210 US girls were named Adel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 50,227 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Adiel (3,063 babies since 1880), Adele (42,373 babies since 1880), Adell (7,263 babies since 1880) and Adelle (5,492 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Adel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,355 | 21 | #4,708 |
| 2024 | 25 | #5,149 | 38 | #3,161 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,755 | 37 | #3,228 |
| 2022 | 20 | #5,986 | 34 | #3,412 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,179 | 30 | #3,652 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,852 | 37 | #3,075 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,988 | 36 | #3,201 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,787 | 42 | #2,848 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,448 | 39 | #3,008 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,906 | 39 | #2,994 |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,465 | 41 | #2,865 |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,625 | 42 | #2,805 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,150 | 29 | #3,583 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,561 | 39 | #2,955 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,123 | 40 | #2,904 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,264 | 41 | #2,875 |
| 2009 | 25 | #5,540 | 34 | #3,275 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,414 | 40 | #2,949 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,136 | 52 | #2,444 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,242 | 51 | #2,401 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,931 | 41 | #2,655 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,266 | 37 | #2,789 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,512 | 34 | #2,847 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,263 | 38 | #2,557 |
| 2001 | 11 | #8,765 | 34 | #2,745 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,176 | 31 | #2,866 |
| 1999 | — | — | 29 | #2,866 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,019 | 30 | #2,713 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,750 | 33 | #2,451 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,140 | 25 | #2,911 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,796 | 30 | #2,501 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,448 | 24 | #2,951 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,601 | 32 | #2,348 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,746 | 35 | #2,174 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,607 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,166 |
| 1989 | 6 | #10,855 | 20 | #2,989 |
| 1988 | — | — | 18 | #2,962 |
| 1987 | 10 | #6,792 | 21 | #2,560 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,136 | 9 | #4,459 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,322 | 15 | #3,071 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,540 | 23 | #2,232 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,824 | 14 | #3,072 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,241 | 7 | #5,010 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,419 | 11 | #3,604 |
| 1980 | 11 | #5,914 | 11 | #3,617 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,698 | 15 | #2,897 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,950 | 6 | #5,068 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,567 | — | — |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,216 | 7 | #4,425 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,161 | 8 | #3,946 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,782 | 7 | #4,192 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,430 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,560 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,391 | — | — |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,364 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,723 | 7 | #3,598 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,249 | — | — |
| 1966 | — | — | 5 | #3,952 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,355 | 5 | #4,042 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,294 | 7 | #3,306 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,460 | — | — |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,625 | — | — |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,698 | — | — |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,225 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,148 | — | — |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,012 | — | — |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #3,893 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,828 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,241 | — | — |
| 1946 | 14 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,132 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,055 | 5 | #3,431 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,249 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,126 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,038 | — | — |
| 1938 | 13 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1936 | 17 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1935 | 14 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,159 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,868 | — | — |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,568 | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,581 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,023 | 6 | #3,596 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,497 | — | — |
| 1927 | 20 | #1,935 | — | — |
| 1926 | 20 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1925 | 22 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1924 | 15 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1922 | 23 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1921 | 26 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1920 | 21 | #1,889 | 6 | #3,817 |
| 1919 | 18 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1918 | 27 | #1,537 | 5 | #4,184 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,740 | 5 | #3,267 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,529 | — | — |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,844 | — | — |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,792 | — | — |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,521 | — | — |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1905 | 10 | #1,238 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,486 | — | — |
| 1903 | 11 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1900 | 8 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1898 | 10 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1896 | 5 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1895 | 11 | #986 | — | — |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,276 | — | — |
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).