Meaning not yet researched.
Adonis: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,462 in 2025. Its best rank was #175 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #175 in 2023; #241 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adonis in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#241 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #175.
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Adonis: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,462 boys in 2025. Peak: #175 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 2,102 (2023).
In 2025, 1,462 US boys were named Adonis, making it the 241st most common boys’ name of the year, down 35 places from #206 in 2024. That is 259 fewer than the 1,721 boys named Adonis in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #175, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 2,102. For comparison, it was #698 in 2015 and #3,689 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adonis in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 21,694 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 10,314 babies named Adonis.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 14,365 US boys were named Adonis; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 2,102. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,168 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adonis ranked highest in Nevada in 2025, at #114 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Adonnis, Adonias and Adonys are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adonnis (720), Adonias (316), Adonys (263), Adonus (75), Addonis (47), Adoniz (15), Adones (5), Adanis (5), Ahdonis (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 Adonis 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 27 | #114 | #391 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #139 | — |
| Georgia | 75 | #166 | #423 |
| Alaska | 5 | #166 | — |
| South Carolina | 34 | #168 | #661 |
| Maryland | 34 | #176 | #787 |
| Florida | 119 | #185 | #484 |
| New York | 107 | #186 | #410 |
| Virginia | 47 | #190 | #445 |
| Alabama | 30 | #191 | — |
| Delaware | 5 | #204 | — |
| Arizona | 39 | #214 | #597 |
| Oklahoma | 22 | #215 | — |
| Hawaii | 5 | #215 | — |
| Texas | 178 | #218 | #858 |
| Connecticut | 15 | #219 | #449 |
| North Carolina | 55 | #226 | #563 |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #230 | #656 |
| Indiana | 34 | #239 | #667 |
| Wisconsin | 24 | #244 | — |
| Colorado | 26 | #251 | #518 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #251 | #435 |
| Michigan | 40 | #252 | #671 |
| Illinois | 45 | #252 | #601 |
| Ohio | 48 | #259 | #1,207 |
| Louisiana | 19 | #266 | #707 |
| New Mexico | 7 | #271 | — |
| California | 134 | #277 | #752 |
| Mississippi | 11 | #281 | — |
| Massachusetts | 20 | #289 | — |
| Missouri | 23 | #291 | #733 |
| Kentucky | 18 | #295 | #493 |
| Kansas | 11 | #324 | — |
| Tennessee | 25 | #348 | — |
| Iowa | 8 | #399 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #400 | — |
| Washington | 18 | #403 | #950 |
| Utah | 11 | #409 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #446 | — |
| Oregon | 7 | #474 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,462 | #241 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,721 | #206 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,498 | 2,102 | #175 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,613 | #224 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,232 | 1,726 | #222 |
| 2020 | — | — | 1,677 | #223 |
| 2019 | — | — | 1,545 | #242 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,836 | 902 | #366 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,962 | 813 | #394 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,379 | 804 | #395 |
| 2015 | — | — | 360 | #698 |
| 2014 | — | — | 336 | #717 |
| 2013 | — | — | 343 | #696 |
| 2012 | — | — | 374 | #640 |
| 2011 | — | — | 335 | #694 |
| 2010 | — | — | 269 | #804 |
| 2009 | — | — | 292 | #779 |
| 2008 | — | — | 251 | #851 |
| 2007 | — | — | 289 | #759 |
| 2006 | — | — | 251 | #812 |
| 2005 | — | — | 230 | #820 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,640 | 232 | #783 |
| 2003 | — | — | 211 | #828 |
| 2002 | — | — | 189 | #868 |
| 2001 | — | — | 179 | #880 |
| 2000 | — | — | 222 | #756 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,710 | 194 | #790 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,454 | 193 | #790 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,818 | 188 | #788 |
| 1996 | — | — | 172 | #832 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,525 | 315 | #578 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,791 | 177 | #798 |
| 1993 | 7 | #10,605 | 156 | #848 |
| 1992 | — | — | 90 | #1,162 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,166 | 106 | #1,046 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,201 |
| 1989 | — | — | 50 | #1,590 |
| 1988 | — | — | 63 | #1,296 |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,835 | 50 | #1,439 |
| 1986 | — | — | 59 | #1,255 |
| 1985 | — | — | 42 | #1,544 |
| 1984 | — | — | 47 | #1,382 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,275 |
| 1982 | — | — | 63 | #1,150 |
| 1981 | — | — | 44 | #1,433 |
| 1980 | — | — | 56 | #1,227 |
| 1979 | — | — | 74 | #1,028 |
| 1978 | — | — | 37 | #1,537 |
| 1977 | — | — | 40 | #1,450 |
| 1976 | — | — | 58 | #1,111 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,071 | 47 | #1,238 |
| 1974 | — | — | 46 | #1,229 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,737 |
| 1972 | — | — | 28 | #1,649 |
| 1971 | — | — | 24 | #1,824 |
| 1970 | — | — | 23 | #1,848 |
| 1969 | — | — | 10 | #2,864 |
| 1968 | — | — | 16 | #2,031 |
| 1967 | — | — | 14 | #2,139 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,274 | 12 | #2,327 |
| 1965 | — | — | 15 | #2,084 |
| 1964 | — | — | 21 | #1,730 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,859 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,042 |
| 1961 | — | — | 7 | #3,357 |
| 1960 | — | — | 7 | #3,338 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,530 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,035 |
| 1957 | — | — | 9 | #2,823 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,361 |
| 1955 | — | — | 11 | #2,435 |
| 1954 | — | — | 23 | #1,593 |
| 1953 | — | — | 13 | #2,186 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #3,739 |
| 1951 | — | — | 9 | #2,664 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #3,689 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,532 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,524 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #3,684 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,646 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,242 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,211 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,189 |
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).