Meaning not yet researched.
Adnan: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,441 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,441 in 2001; #1,539 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adnan in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,539 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,441.
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Adnan: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,441 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 118 (2023).
In 2025, 112 US boys were named Adnan, making it the 1,539th most common boys’ name of the year, down 22 places from #1,517 in 2024. That is 5 fewer than the 117 boys named Adnan in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,441, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 118, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,767 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adnan in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 6 babies. In all, 2,996 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 802 babies named Adnan.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 960 US boys were named Adnan; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 118. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,251 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adnan ranked highest in Minnesota in 2025, at #511 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Adnaan 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Albanian, Arabic and Turkish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adnaan (73).
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 Adnan 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 10 | #511 | #538 |
| Virginia | 9 | #730 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #901 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #936 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,096 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,150 | — |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,268 | #1,078 |
| New York | 7 | #1,417 | #1,065 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,080 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 112 | #1,539 |
| 2024 | — | — | 117 | #1,517 |
| 2023 | — | — | 118 | #1,501 |
| 2022 | — | — | 111 | #1,590 |
| 2021 | — | — | 101 | #1,645 |
| 2020 | — | — | 75 | #1,937 |
| 2019 | — | — | 80 | #1,869 |
| 2018 | — | — | 100 | #1,625 |
| 2017 | — | — | 80 | #1,844 |
| 2016 | — | — | 66 | #2,110 |
| 2015 | — | — | 86 | #1,767 |
| 2014 | — | — | 76 | #1,907 |
| 2013 | — | — | 94 | #1,625 |
| 2012 | — | — | 66 | #2,068 |
| 2011 | — | — | 72 | #1,927 |
| 2010 | — | — | 82 | #1,794 |
| 2009 | — | — | 87 | #1,755 |
| 2008 | — | — | 82 | #1,803 |
| 2007 | — | — | 61 | #2,185 |
| 2006 | — | — | 77 | #1,790 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,890 |
| 2004 | — | — | 79 | #1,629 |
| 2003 | — | — | 79 | #1,592 |
| 2002 | — | — | 80 | #1,544 |
| 2001 | — | — | 86 | #1,441 |
| 2000 | — | — | 70 | #1,653 |
| 1999 | — | — | 62 | #1,692 |
| 1998 | — | — | 59 | #1,719 |
| 1997 | — | — | 44 | #2,024 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,299 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,706 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,041 |
| 1993 | — | — | 46 | #1,824 |
| 1992 | — | — | 28 | #2,534 |
| 1991 | — | — | 25 | #2,683 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,840 |
| 1989 | — | — | 38 | #1,919 |
| 1988 | — | — | 40 | #1,732 |
| 1987 | — | — | 38 | #1,734 |
| 1986 | — | — | 29 | #2,007 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #2,943 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,292 |
| 1983 | — | — | 17 | #2,677 |
| 1982 | — | — | 21 | #2,341 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,270 |
| 1980 | — | — | 17 | #2,729 |
| 1979 | — | — | 18 | #2,568 |
| 1978 | — | — | 20 | #2,279 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,167 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,472 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,753 |
| 1974 | — | — | 10 | #3,324 |
| 1973 | — | — | 7 | #4,059 |
| 1972 | — | — | 6 | #4,446 |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,234 |
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).