Adhemar — boys' name
36 babies named Adhemar in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
64% of everyone ever named Adhemar was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Adhemar in 1998 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Adhemar
The Social Security Administration has registered 36 babies named Adhemar between 1992 and 2001, spanning 10 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Adhemar currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2001. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Adhemar performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 23 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Adhemar shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 8 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Adhemar in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Adhemar 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 36 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.
Adhemar at a glance
Last recorded 2001Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Adhemar popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2001–1992
- Peak year (1998)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 10 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2001.
36 total births across 10 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1998 with 10 births in a single year.
Adhemar by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 23 births that decade — 64% of Adhemar's all-time total
Adhemar decade highlights
- Peak decade 23 births
- Runner-up 13 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Adhemar's strongest decade
23 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 64% of all-time use.
Adhemar by state
Where Adhemar concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 8 | 22.2% |
| #2 | California | | 5 | 13.9% |
8 of 36 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- New York 22.2% of nationwide
- California 13.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 22.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration 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, 1992–2001 (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.