Adeel
Adeel was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,448 among boys’ names; 419 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adeel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adeel?
#6,448 among boys’ names, 2025
Adeel rose from #12,116 in 2015 to #6,448 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 7.6 per million.
20 babies in 2020, the peak
Adeel peaked in 2020, when 20 boys were given it, #4,696 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,448 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,659 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #6,521 | 7.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,148 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,100 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,696 | 11.6 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,650 | 5.6 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,704 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,558 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,727 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,116 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,735 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,749 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,796 | 3.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #9,874 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,021 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 8 | #8,925 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,740 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #10,160 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,540 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 13 | #5,554 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,127 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,663 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 9 | #6,837 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,139 | 4.2 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,646 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,284 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,496 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 8 | #6,404 | 4.2 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,869 | 4.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,638 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,563 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,473 | 5.9 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,380 | 4.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,615 | 4.0 |
| 1988 | 14 | #3,520 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,235 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,650 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 5 | #6,529 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,568 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,486 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,274 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,500 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adeel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adeel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adeel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adeel, and how old are they?
An estimated 409 Americans named Adeel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 8 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 993 people named Adeel (11 women and girls, 982 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 330 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.0 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 9,490 babies since 1880, Adeel is the fifth most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 401 babies (3.2%), again the fifth 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 Adeel
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 Adeel and names like it
- Compare Adeel and AdielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdeel peaked in 2020.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adeel since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Adeel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adeel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.