Adiel
Adiel was given to 185 boys in 2025, #1,141 among boys’ names; 3,063 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Adiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adiel mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Adiel is “a male given name from Hebrew”
/aˈdjel/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adiel?
#1,141 among boys’ names, 2025
Adiel rose from #1,346 in 2015 to #1,141 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.07 to 0.11 per 1,000.
196 babies in 2021, the peak
Adiel peaked in 2021, when 196 babies were given it (190 boys, #1,100 among boys’ names). The 185 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 185 | #1,141 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 165 | #1,221 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 163 | #1,217 | 0.10 |
| 2022 | 143 | #1,314 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 190 | #1,100 | 0.11 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,280 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 174 | #1,123 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 138 | #1,317 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 180 | #1,087 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 166 | #1,157 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,346 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 91 | #1,679 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 77 | #1,850 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,563 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 86 | #1,718 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 94 | #1,652 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 90 | #1,716 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 71 | #1,980 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 77 | #1,861 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,009 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,361 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,282 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,777 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 44 | #2,335 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,298 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,760 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 25 | #3,180 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,870 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,876 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #3,096 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #4,801 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,240 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #3,600 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,938 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 15 | #3,775 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,162 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,448 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #6,955 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #4,852 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,554 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #4,916 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #4,965 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,530 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,063 Americans recorded as Adiel, 4% are girls and 96% boys. In 2025 it went to 185 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adiel, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,063 Americans ever recorded as Adiel. The median Adiel alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 2,467 people named Adiel (168 women and girls, 2,299 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,076 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above 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 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 158 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 885 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,980 |
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 Adiel born?
The states with the most babies named Adiel are Texas, California and New York, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 29 | #876 | 1.5× |
| California | 22 | #988 | 1.0× |
| New York | 16 | #844 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,057 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 12 | #559 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 9 | #708 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 8 | #938 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #620 | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 7 | #1,097 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,024 | 0.2× |
Where Adiel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adiel is most over-represented in Texas: since 1980 it was given 1.5 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 boys’ 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 Adiel 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 9,780 babies since 1880, Adiel is the most given (31% of them). In 2025 it was given to 185 of their 408 babies (45%), again the 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 Adiel
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 Adiel and names like it
- Compare Adiel and AdelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdiel peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adiel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Adiel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Adiel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adiel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.