Meaning not yet researched.
Adriel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,921 in 2025. Its best rank was #84 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 99.6% of babies named Adriel in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#84 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Adriel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,921 boys in 2025. Peak: #84 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 3,921 (2025).
In 2025, 3,921 US boys were named Adriel, making it the 84th most common boys’ name of the year, up 25 places from #109 in 2024. That is 668 more than the 3,253 boys named Adriel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #84, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 3,921. For comparison, it was #287 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adriel in 68 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1952 with 10 babies. In all, 34,751 US babies have been given the name, 3.2% of them girls and 97% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 18,283 babies named Adriel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 24,989 US boys were named Adriel; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 3,921. In 2025 that was about 1 in 436 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adriel ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #14 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 11 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Adrian (287,982 babies since 1880), Ariel (100,665 babies since 1880), Adiel (3,063 babies since 1880) and Adrielle (1,184 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adrie, Adryel and Adriell 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adrie (268), Adryel (168), Adriell (120), Adrial (41), Adriyel (35), Audriel (16), Adrell (5), Aydriel (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 Adriel 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 49 | #14 | #152 |
| Arizona | 209 | #16 | #104 |
| California | 959 | #24 | #170 |
| Texas | 885 | #24 | #173 |
| Nevada | 64 | #30 | #123 |
| Colorado | 101 | #55 | #134 |
| Washington | 101 | #70 | #345 |
| Rhode Island | 13 | #77 | — |
| Idaho | 28 | #80 | #206 |
| Illinois | 139 | #81 | #282 |
| Oregon | 41 | #91 | #270 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #104 | #218 |
| Kansas | 34 | #110 | #224 |
| Utah | 45 | #116 | #305 |
| Oklahoma | 37 | #123 | #339 |
| New Jersey | 76 | #127 | #257 |
| Georgia | 91 | #130 | #473 |
| North Carolina | 95 | #130 | #367 |
| Maryland | 44 | #134 | #417 |
| Florida | 156 | #139 | #295 |
| Massachusetts | 52 | #140 | #255 |
| Delaware | 7 | #142 | — |
| New York | 135 | #144 | #336 |
| Connecticut | 24 | #151 | #322 |
| Arkansas | 22 | #165 | — |
| Minnesota | 37 | #178 | #634 |
| Tennessee | 51 | #183 | #553 |
| Virginia | 48 | #188 | #670 |
| Iowa | 21 | #191 | — |
| Alabama | 29 | #195 | #480 |
| Indiana | 40 | #206 | #454 |
| South Carolina | 27 | #207 | #529 |
| Louisiana | 25 | #207 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | #217 | #554 |
| Michigan | 37 | #271 | #632 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #285 | #551 |
| Missouri | 19 | #336 | — |
| Ohio | 32 | #349 | #780 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #375 | — |
| Mississippi | 7 | #415 | #471 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,493 | 3,921 | #84 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,304 | 3,253 | #109 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,757 | 3,195 | #113 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,472 | 2,693 | #139 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,959 | 2,477 | #154 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,318 | 2,611 | #140 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,174 | 2,127 | #185 |
| 2018 | 79 | #2,303 | 1,648 | #232 |
| 2017 | 95 | #2,054 | 1,469 | #253 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,996 | 1,595 | #241 |
| 2015 | 47 | #3,391 | 1,290 | #287 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,227 | 694 | #438 |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,077 | 585 | #474 |
| 2012 | 39 | #3,916 | 600 | #453 |
| 2011 | 22 | #5,941 | 593 | #454 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,418 | 500 | #516 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,895 | 525 | #511 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,561 | 431 | #586 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,104 | 376 | #645 |
| 2006 | 22 | #5,910 | 308 | #710 |
| 2005 | 14 | #7,900 | 243 | #795 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,747 | 223 | #805 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,239 | 212 | #826 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,446 | 176 | #913 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,070 | 137 | #1,054 |
| 2000 | 8 | #10,759 | 134 | #1,066 |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,812 | 114 | #1,149 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,109 | 97 | #1,246 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,295 | 85 | #1,326 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,135 | 87 | #1,266 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,046 | 80 | #1,312 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,324 | 73 | #1,362 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,267 | 77 | #1,295 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,496 | 66 | #1,397 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,663 | 89 | #1,170 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,885 | 90 | #1,135 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,454 | 55 | #1,493 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,810 | 57 | #1,373 |
| 1987 | 12 | #5,925 | 58 | #1,283 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,725 | 48 | #1,439 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,080 | 42 | #1,545 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,319 | 50 | #1,321 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,555 | 46 | #1,375 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,716 | 47 | #1,382 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,532 | 45 | #1,411 |
| 1980 | 12 | #5,546 | 33 | #1,726 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,701 | 41 | #1,464 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,566 | 37 | #1,538 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,345 | 21 | #2,203 |
| 1976 | — | — | 24 | #1,999 |
| 1975 | — | — | 21 | #2,134 |
| 1974 | — | — | 12 | #2,947 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,607 |
| 1972 | — | — | 12 | #2,822 |
| 1971 | — | — | 10 | #3,147 |
| 1970 | — | — | 8 | #3,523 |
| 1969 | — | — | 9 | #3,066 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,143 |
| 1967 | — | — | 9 | #2,761 |
| 1966 | — | — | 6 | #3,537 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,044 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,043 |
| 1958 | — | — | 7 | #3,278 |
| 1957 | — | — | 8 | #3,025 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #3,889 |
| 1954 | — | — | 11 | #2,450 |
| 1953 | — | — | 10 | #2,533 |
| 1952 | — | — | 10 | #2,518 |
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).