Meaning not yet researched.
Adonai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 79 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,685 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,685 in 2024; #1,942 in 2025. About 86% of babies named Adonai in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,942 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,685.
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Adonai: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 79 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,685 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 99 (2024).
In 2025, 79 US boys were named Adonai, making it the 1,942nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 257 places from #1,685 in 2024. That is 20 fewer than the 99 boys named Adonai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,685, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #2,146 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Adonai, making it the 7,896th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,243 places from #11,139 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 8 girls named Adonai in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #6,715, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #16,483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adonai in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1990 with 5 babies. In all, 1,466 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 597 babies named Adonai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 681 US boys were named Adonai; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 99. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,621 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adonai ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,126 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adina (7,364 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 Adonai 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,126 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,217 | #1,765 |
| California | 8 | #1,831 | #1,212 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,896 | 79 | #1,942 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,139 | 99 | #1,685 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,257 | 67 | #2,147 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,715 | 71 | #2,094 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,177 | 50 | #2,588 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,262 | 68 | #2,069 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,845 | 58 | #2,340 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,737 | 75 | #1,959 |
| 2017 | — | — | 54 | #2,388 |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,889 | 60 | #2,229 |
| 2015 | 5 | #16,483 | 64 | #2,146 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,529 | 45 | #2,662 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,588 | 47 | #2,563 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,218 | 39 | #2,957 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,389 | 29 | #3,607 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,467 | 46 | #2,634 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,462 | 40 | #2,946 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,821 | 30 | #3,562 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,549 | 42 | #2,812 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,299 | 25 | #3,888 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,935 | 26 | #3,619 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,146 | 22 | #4,008 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,433 | 18 | #4,429 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,494 | 8 | #7,657 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,326 | 12 | #5,674 |
| 2000 | — | — | 15 | #4,788 |
| 1999 | — | — | 7 | #7,887 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #8,489 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,132 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #8,715 |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #8,245 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,137 |
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).