Meaning not yet researched.
Gadiel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 173 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,065 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,065 in 2020; #1,186 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gadiel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,186 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,065.
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Gadiel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 173 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,065 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 203 (2024).
In 2025, 173 US boys were named Gadiel, making it the 1,186th most common boys’ name of the year, down 113 places from #1,073 in 2024. That is 30 fewer than the 203 boys named Gadiel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,065, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 203, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,025 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gadiel in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 5 babies. In all, 2,568 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,066 babies named Gadiel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,541 US boys were named Gadiel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 203. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,873 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gadiel ranked highest in California in 2025, at #687 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Gaddiel are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gaddiel (291).
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 Gadiel 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #687 | #1,228 |
| Indiana | 7 | #799 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #962 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #965 | #1,392 |
| Texas | 24 | #987 | #1,217 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,012 | — |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,022 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,037 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,068 | — |
| New York | 6 | #1,634 | — |
| Florida | 6 | #1,694 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 173 | #1,186 |
| 2024 | — | — | 203 | #1,073 |
| 2023 | — | — | 186 | #1,134 |
| 2022 | — | — | 186 | #1,132 |
| 2021 | — | — | 130 | #1,413 |
| 2020 | — | — | 188 | #1,065 |
| 2019 | — | — | 160 | #1,197 |
| 2018 | — | — | 136 | #1,331 |
| 2017 | — | — | 89 | #1,739 |
| 2016 | — | — | 90 | #1,728 |
| 2015 | — | — | 71 | #2,025 |
| 2014 | — | — | 73 | #1,966 |
| 2013 | — | — | 79 | #1,815 |
| 2012 | — | — | 83 | #1,788 |
| 2011 | — | — | 70 | #1,976 |
| 2010 | — | — | 79 | #1,840 |
| 2009 | — | — | 88 | #1,745 |
| 2008 | — | — | 76 | #1,907 |
| 2007 | — | — | 70 | #2,002 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,230 |
| 2005 | — | — | 45 | #2,503 |
| 2004 | — | — | 50 | #2,291 |
| 2003 | — | — | 36 | #2,748 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,039 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,220 |
| 2000 | — | — | 16 | #4,653 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,776 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,731 |
| 1997 | — | — | 8 | #6,823 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,697 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,258 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,107 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,916 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,480 |
| 1985 | — | — | 6 | #6,043 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #6,390 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,128 |
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).