Girls' name · since 1986
Adaire
Adaire has 55 recorded births since 1986 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2012 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #33,794 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,508 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 55
- born since 1986
- 2010s
- peak decade
55 babies have been named Adaire since 1986, making it today's #15508 girls' name.
Adaire has 55 recorded births among girls since 1986, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15508 as of the latest data, more common than 10% of girls, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1986 to 2025.
- #33,794 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,508 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 55 born since 1986
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Adaire ranks #33,794 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,508 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 55 born since 1986, peaking in the 2010s.
- #33,794 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,508 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 55
- born since 1986
- 2010s
- peak decade
Adaire's 55 recorded births place it above 52.97% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Adaire compares
55 17th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Adaire's all-time total is 85% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Adaire | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 55 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Adaire's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Adaire's SSA record in two at 2006 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1986, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2012 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Adaire popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1986–2025
- Peak year (2012)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 40 years of records
Adaire by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (14 births, 25% of the file).
2010s was Adaire's strongest decade.
14 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 25% of all-time use.
Adaire births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
10 births
- 1990s
1990s
10 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
14 births
- 2020s
2020s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 14 births (25% of all-time use).
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- Adaire's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (14 total births) through the 2020s (10) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Adaire: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2012)
Similar record span (~39 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1986–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Adaire draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.