Adel — #3159 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Adel

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,487 babies named Adel between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Adel currently holds the #3159 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2007, when 52 babies received it in a single year. Adel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,462 additional births since 1888.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Adel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 392 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Adel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 168 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Adel in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Adel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,487 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.