Adi
Adi is given to both girls and boys: 17 girls and 24 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,549 among girls’ names and #4,252 among boys’, #6,411 among all names counting both); 1,724 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,700 Americans named Adi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adi is “a diminutive of the female given names Adelaide, Adrienne, and Aditi, or other names beginning with Ad-.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given names Adrian, Aditya, and Adit, or other names beginning with Ad-.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adi?
#6,549 among girls’ names, 2025
Adi fell from #5,288 in 2015 to #6,549 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 10.6 per million.
66 babies in 2008, the peak
Adi peaked in 2008, when 66 babies were given it (29 girls, #5,012 among girls’ names). The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,549 | 24 | #4,252 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,642 | 36 | #3,270 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,751 | 27 | #3,999 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,639 | 31 | #3,615 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,255 | 23 | #4,359 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,324 | 36 | #3,137 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,023 | 19 | #4,952 |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,452 | 31 | #3,524 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,049 | 21 | #4,591 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,925 | 21 | #4,627 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,288 | 28 | #3,777 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,891 | 28 | #3,691 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,543 | 23 | #4,180 |
| 2012 | 37 | #4,048 | 28 | #3,713 |
| 2011 | 33 | #4,356 | 21 | #4,509 |
| 2010 | 27 | #5,108 | 21 | #4,518 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,380 | 27 | #3,829 |
| 2008 | 29 | #5,012 | 37 | #3,102 |
| 2007 | 37 | #4,130 | 26 | #3,895 |
| 2006 | 24 | #5,551 | 35 | #3,083 |
| 2005 | 27 | #4,825 | 26 | #3,614 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,741 | 28 | #3,365 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,799 | 22 | #3,833 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,903 | 16 | #4,699 |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,175 | 11 | #6,010 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,288 | 16 | #4,570 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,214 | 7 | #7,879 |
| 1998 | 18 | #5,580 | 18 | #3,845 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,622 | 5 | #9,278 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,575 | 6 | #7,970 |
| 1995 | 15 | #5,954 | 7 | #6,990 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,316 | 5 | #8,810 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,204 | 6 | #7,640 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,478 | 7 | #6,667 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,250 | 6 | #7,274 |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,461 | 9 | #5,381 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,446 | 8 | #5,616 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,390 | under 5 | |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,350 | 6 | #6,088 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,721 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,031 | under 5 | |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,540 | 5 | #6,319 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,710 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,421 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,319 | 6 | #5,529 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,016 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,563 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,652 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,299 | 7 | #4,427 |
| 1974 | 7 | #6,899 | under 5 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 9 | #3,370 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Adi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,724 Americans recorded as Adi, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adi, and how old are they?
1,700 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,724 Americans ever recorded as Adi. The median Adi alive today is 17 years old; half are between 10 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 2,972 people named Adi (1,545 women and girls, 1,427 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 67 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 751 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 641 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Adi born?
The states with the most babies named Adi are New York, Illinois and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #2,082 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,154 | 0.1× |
Where Adi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adi is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 179,404 babies since 1880, Adi is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 1,992 babies (2.1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Adi
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 Adi and names like it
- Compare Adi and AdaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sAdi peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adi since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Adi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Adi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.