Adal
Adal was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,198 among boys’ names; 408 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adal mean?
Wiktionary, Turkish section
Adal is “a male given name from Old Turkic” Its etymology gives the senses “name” (ad) and “take” (al).
From ad (“name”) + al (“take”). It means “take name”, used by Ancient Turks for children before a child performs a brave action and took a name according to that action.
/ɑˈdɑɫ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Turkish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adal?
#7,198 among boys’ names, 2025
Adal entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #7,198 in 2025.
38 babies in 2006, the peak
Adal peaked in 2006, when 38 boys were given it, #2,932 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,198 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,198 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,290 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,831 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 20 | #4,779 | 11.4 |
| 2020 | 14 | #5,982 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,159 | 2.8 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,606 | 5.3 |
| 2014 | 5 | #12,141 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,157 | 2.6 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 13 | #6,306 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,252 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,698 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,801 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 17 | #5,248 | 8.3 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,375 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,932 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,444 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,263 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,274 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,344 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,838 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,731 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,758 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 5 | #9,637 | 2.6 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,527 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adal, and how old are they?
An estimated 402 Americans named Adal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 448 people named Adal (35 women and girls, 413 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 326 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Adal rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,780 babies since 1880, Adal is the seventh most given (4.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 408 babies (2.7%), again the seventh most given.
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 Adal
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 Adal and names like it
- Compare Adal and AdielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAdal peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adal since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Adal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Adal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.