Adelai — #8250 US girls' name
259 babies named Adelai in U.S. Social Security records since 2003, with the highest year being 2011. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 53% of names given to girls today.
58% of everyone ever named Adelai was born in this single decade.
19 babies were named Adelai in 2011 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Adelai
The Social Security Administration has registered 259 babies named Adelai between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Adelai currently holds the #8250 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 19 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Adelai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Adelai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Adelai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Adelai 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 259 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.
Adelai at a glance
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Current rank
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Adelai popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–2003
- Peak year (2011)
- 19
- Annual births at peak — across 22 years of records
Currently ranks #8250 among girls.
259 total births across 22 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2011 with 19 births in a single year.
Adelai by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 149 births that decade — 58% of Adelai's all-time total
Adelai decade highlights
- Peak decade 149 births
- Runner-up 58 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Adelai's strongest decade
149 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 58% of all-time use.
Adelai by state
Where Adelai concentrates geographically — total births since 2003
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 5 | 1.9% |
5 of 259 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 2003–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.