Adley
Adley is given to both girls and boys: 339 girls and 51 boys were given it in 2025 (#805 among girls’ names and #2,572 among boys’, #1,399 among all names counting both); 6,823 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,730 Americans named Adley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adley mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adley is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Possibly a variant of Hadley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adley?
#805 among girls’ names, 2025
Adley rose from #832 in 2015 to #805 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.19 to 0.21 per 1,000.
630 babies in 2021, the peak
Adley peaked in 2021, when 630 babies were given it (611 girls, #509 among girls’ names). The 390 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 339 | #805 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 433 | #668 | 0.27 |
| 2023 | 370 | #759 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 455 | #648 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 611 | #509 | 0.37 |
| 2020 | 558 | #539 | 0.35 |
| 2019 | 434 | #668 | 0.26 |
| 2018 | 481 | #624 | 0.28 |
| 2017 | 501 | #602 | 0.29 |
| 2016 | 482 | #619 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 337 | #832 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,333 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 220 | #1,105 | 0.13 |
| 2012 | 378 | #733 | 0.21 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,663 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,386 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,940 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,860 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 43 | #3,721 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,234 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,528 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,832 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,003 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 13 | #7,815 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,072 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,103 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,823 Americans recorded as Adley, 90% are girls and 10% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adley, and how old are they?
6,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 6,823 Americans ever recorded as Adley. The median Adley alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 3,665 people named Adley (3,230 women and girls, 435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,872 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 43 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 912 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,760 |
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 Adley born?
The states with the most babies named Adley are Pennsylvania, Maryland and Texas, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Maryland is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 25 | #515 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 24 | #355 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 19 | #1,314 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #635 | 0.9× |
| California | 16 | #1,410 | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 14 | #532 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,055 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 13 | #711 | 1.0× |
| Louisiana | 13 | #342 | 1.8× |
| Wisconsin | 13 | #392 | 1.4× |
Where Adley is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adley is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1918 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 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 Adley 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 57,128 babies since 1880, Adley is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 390 of their 1,120 babies (35%), the 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 Adley
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 Adley and names like it
- Compare Adley and AdeleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdley peaked in 2021.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adley since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Adley: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Adley.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adley alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.