Adnan
Adnan was given to 112 boys in 2025, #1,539 among boys’ names; 2,996 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,930 Americans named Adnan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adnan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adnan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adnan is “a male given name from Arabic.” Its etymology gives the sense “settler” (عَدْنَان).
Borrowed from Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adnan?
#1,539 among boys’ names, 2025
Adnan rose from #1,767 in 2015 to #1,539 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 44.9 to 65.6 per million.
118 babies in 2023, the peak
Adnan peaked in 2023, when 118 boys were given it, #1,501 among boys’ names. The 112 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 112 | #1,539 | 65.6 |
| 2024 | 117 | #1,517 | 67.9 |
| 2023 | 118 | #1,501 | 69.0 |
| 2022 | 111 | #1,590 | 63.6 |
| 2021 | 101 | #1,645 | 57.7 |
| 2020 | 75 | #1,937 | 43.5 |
| 2019 | 80 | #1,869 | 44.6 |
| 2018 | 100 | #1,625 | 55.1 |
| 2017 | 80 | #1,844 | 43.2 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,110 | 34.8 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #1,767 | 44.9 |
| 2014 | 76 | #1,906 | 39.6 |
| 2013 | 94 | #1,624 | 49.7 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,067 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 72 | #1,926 | 37.9 |
| 2010 | 82 | #1,793 | 42.7 |
| 2009 | 87 | #1,754 | 43.9 |
| 2008 | 82 | #1,803 | 40.2 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,185 | 29.4 |
| 2006 | 77 | #1,790 | 37.5 |
| 2005 | 67 | #1,886 | 33.5 |
| 2004 | 79 | #1,626 | 39.8 |
| 2003 | 79 | #1,589 | 40.0 |
| 2002 | 80 | #1,541 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 86 | #1,437 | 44.3 |
| 2000 | 70 | #1,649 | 35.6 |
| 1999 | 62 | #1,689 | 32.3 |
| 1998 | 59 | #1,716 | 30.9 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,021 | 23.3 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,294 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 52 | #1,701 | 27.3 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,036 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 46 | #1,819 | 23.5 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,529 | 14.0 |
| 1991 | 25 | #2,677 | 12.4 |
| 1990 | 42 | #1,835 | 20.4 |
| 1989 | 38 | #1,914 | 19.0 |
| 1988 | 40 | #1,727 | 20.9 |
| 1987 | 38 | #1,732 | 20.4 |
| 1986 | 29 | #2,005 | 15.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #2,940 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,291 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,676 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 21 | #2,340 | 11.6 |
| 1981 | 22 | #2,269 | 12.3 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,728 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 18 | #2,567 | 10.5 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,279 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,165 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,470 | 6.4 |
| 1975 | 14 | #2,751 | 9.0 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,322 | 6.4 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,057 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,444 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,232 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adnan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adnan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adnan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adnan, and how old are they?
2,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,996 Americans ever recorded as Adnan. The median Adnan alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 6,276 people named Adnan (26 women and girls, 6,250 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,339 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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 | 105 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 487 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,210 |
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 Adnan born?
The states with the most babies named Adnan are California, Minnesota and Virginia, with 48% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Minnesota and Virginia are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 17 | #1,150 | 0.7× |
| Minnesota | 10 | #511 | 3.9× |
| Virginia | 9 | #730 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 8 | #936 | 1.2× |
| New York | 7 | #1,417 | 2.4× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,080 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 6 | #901 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,096 | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,268 | 0.5× |
Where Adnan is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adnan is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1970 it was given 3.9 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 Adnan 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 193,675 babies since 1880, Adnan is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 112 of their 2,198 babies (5.1%), the fourth 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 Adnan
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 Adnan and names like it
- Compare Adnan and AidanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdnan peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adnan since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Adnan: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Adnan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adnan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.