Adael
Adael was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,868 among boys’ names; 657 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adael?
#1,868 among boys’ names, 2025
Adael rose from #4,177 in 2015 to #1,868 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.5 to 49.2 per million.
151 babies in 2023, the peak
Adael peaked in 2023, when 151 boys were given it, #1,272 among boys’ names. The 84 births of 2025 are 56% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,868 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 75 | #2,028 | 43.5 |
| 2023 | 151 | #1,272 | 88.3 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,700 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,493 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 30 | #3,570 | 17.4 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,553 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,475 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 26 | #3,990 | 14.0 |
| 2016 | 32 | #3,441 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #4,177 | 12.5 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,064 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,315 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,627 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 17 | #5,200 | 9.0 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,147 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,103 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,247 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,690 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,735 | 3.9 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,684 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adael, and how old are they?
An estimated 652 Americans named Adael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 268 people named Adael (7 women and girls, 261 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 279 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Adael born?
The states with the most babies named Adael are Texas, California and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 23 | #1,012 | 1.6× |
| California | 19 | #1,085 | 1.6× |
| Arizona | 9 | #672 | 2.0× |
Where Adael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adael is most over-represented in Texas: since 2002 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,490 babies since 1880, Adael is the fourth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 401 babies (21%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Adael and names like it
- Compare Adael and AdielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdael peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adael since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Adael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.