Adlai — #9897 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Adlai

The Social Security Administration has registered 602 babies named Adlai between 1891 and 2024, spanning 134 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Adlai currently holds the #9897 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1952, when 39 babies received it in a single year. Adlai is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 81 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Adlai performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 157 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Adlai shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Illinois, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Adlai in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Adlai 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 602 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.