Meaning not yet researched.
Adley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 339 in 2025. Its best rank was #509 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #509 in 2021; #805 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Adley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#805 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #509.
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Adley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 339 girls in 2025. Peak: #509 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 611 (2021).
In 2025, 339 US girls were named Adley, making it the 805th most common girls’ name of the year, down 137 places from #668 in 2024. That is 94 fewer than the 433 girls named Adley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #509, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 611. For comparison, it was #832 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 51 US boys were named Adley, making it the 2,572nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 633 places from #1,939 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 81 boys named Adley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,939, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 81. For comparison, it was #7,499 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adley in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 6,823 US babies have been given the name, 90% of them girls and 9.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,342 babies named Adley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,664 US girls were named Adley; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 611. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,741 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adley ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #230 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adlee (1,189 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Audley, Addley and Adlie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Audley (699), Addley (304), Adlie (76), Addlee (35), Adlih (30), Adly (29), Adlei (15), Adlia (11), Adlea (5).
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 Adley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 7 | #230 | — |
| Kansas | 10 | #324 | #406 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #342 | #777 |
| Maryland | 15 | #355 | #778 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #387 | #563 |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #392 | #682 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #396 | #412 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #407 | #367 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | #437 | #328 |
| Oregon | 7 | #483 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 20 | #515 | #822 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #532 | #462 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #540 | #364 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #556 | #579 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #560 | #759 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #635 | #712 |
| Indiana | 9 | #651 | #506 |
| Colorado | 7 | #703 | #693 |
| Ohio | 13 | #711 | #490 |
| Washington | 8 | #732 | #938 |
| Michigan | 10 | #737 | #587 |
| Virginia | 8 | #844 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #929 | #445 |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,043 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,055 | #1,180 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,079 | #592 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,113 | #1,168 |
| New York | 11 | #1,235 | #1,966 |
| Texas | 19 | #1,314 | #1,092 |
| California | 16 | #1,410 | #1,593 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 339 | #805 | 51 | #2,572 |
| 2024 | 433 | #668 | 81 | #1,939 |
| 2023 | 370 | #759 | 61 | #2,290 |
| 2022 | 455 | #648 | 26 | #4,090 |
| 2021 | 611 | #509 | 19 | #4,936 |
| 2020 | 558 | #539 | 24 | #4,143 |
| 2019 | 434 | #668 | 29 | #3,717 |
| 2018 | 481 | #624 | 19 | #4,923 |
| 2017 | 501 | #602 | 22 | #4,470 |
| 2016 | 482 | #619 | 17 | #5,323 |
| 2015 | 337 | #832 | 10 | #7,499 |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,333 | 18 | #5,069 |
| 2013 | 220 | #1,105 | 20 | #4,623 |
| 2012 | 378 | #733 | 20 | #4,689 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,664 | 12 | #6,580 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,386 | 20 | #4,680 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,941 | 18 | #5,106 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,861 | 15 | #5,770 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,722 | 16 | #5,435 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,235 | 14 | #5,790 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,533 | 6 | #10,171 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,837 | 10 | #6,981 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,008 | 8 | #7,849 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,821 | 7 | #8,463 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,079 | 5 | #10,589 |
| 2000 | — | — | 5 | #10,382 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #7,573 |
| 1994 | — | — | 9 | #5,877 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #6,950 |
| 1988 | — | — | 9 | #4,789 |
| 1987 | — | — | 6 | #6,096 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #6,539 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,325 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,394 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,043 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,036 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #3,806 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #3,736 |
| 1938 | — | — | 5 | #3,537 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #3,768 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,742 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #3,877 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,105 | 6 | #3,875 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,187 |
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).