Adler
Adler was given to 275 boys in 2025, #871 among boys’ names; 4,156 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,120 Americans named Adler and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adler by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adler?
#871 among boys’ names, 2025
Adler rose from #1,199 in 2015 to #871 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.16 per 1,000.
292 babies in 2025, the peak
Adler peaked in 2025, when 292 babies were given it (275 boys, #871 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 233 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 275 | #871 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 233 | #969 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 239 | #946 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 231 | #975 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 253 | #907 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 241 | #924 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 194 | #1,054 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 187 | #1,069 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 194 | #1,036 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 170 | #1,135 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 154 | #1,199 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 145 | #1,245 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 139 | #1,255 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 155 | #1,172 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 113 | #1,448 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 109 | #1,492 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 97 | #1,625 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,802 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 99 | #1,576 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,010 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,885 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,596 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 39 | #2,576 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 31 | #2,940 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 42 | #2,344 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,293 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,832 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #4,871 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 22 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #4,878 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,505 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 9 | #5,870 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 12 | #4,697 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,234 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 8 | #5,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,124 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 5 | #7,912 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,333 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adler a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,156 Americans recorded as Adler, 10% are girls and 90% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 girls and 275 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adler: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adler, and how old are they?
4,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,156 Americans ever recorded as Adler. The median Adler alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 2,703 people named Adler (273 women and girls, 2,430 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,586 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 80 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,940 |
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 Adler born?
The states with the most babies named Adler are Illinois, Pennsylvania and Texas, with 19% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Illinois | 16 | #568 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #606 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,348 | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 14 | #483 | 1.9× |
| Ohio | 13 | #676 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,009 | 0.5× |
| Missouri | 13 | #457 | 1.5× |
| Virginia | 12 | #588 | 0.5× |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #438 | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 10 | #451 | 0.5× |
Where Adler is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adler is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1985 it was given 1.9 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 Adler with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adler
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 Adler and names like it
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Adler.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adler alive today were born 2013-2025.
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