Adonai
Adonai is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 79 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,894 among girls’ names and #1,942 among boys’, #3,744 among all names counting both); 1,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,450 Americans named Adonai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adonai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adonai mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Adonai is “a male given name from Hebrew”
Borrowed from Hebrew אדוני.
/adoˈnai/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adonai?
#1,942 among boys’ names, 2025
Adonai rose from #2,146 in 2015 to #1,942 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 33.4 to 46.3 per million.
107 babies in 2024, the peak
Adonai peaked in 2024, when 107 babies were given it (99 boys, #1,685 among boys’ names). The 92 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 86% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #7,894 | 79 | #1,942 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,134 | 99 | #1,685 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,252 | 67 | #2,146 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,710 | 71 | #2,093 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,172 | 50 | #2,587 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,257 | 68 | #2,069 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,840 | 58 | #2,339 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,732 | 75 | #1,958 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 54 | #2,387 | |
| 2016 | 12 | #8,886 | 60 | #2,229 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #16,477 | 64 | #2,146 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,524 | 45 | #2,660 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,583 | 47 | #2,561 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,212 | 39 | #2,955 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,385 | 29 | #3,606 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,462 | 46 | #2,633 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,458 | 40 | #2,945 |
| 2008 | 10 | #10,816 | 30 | #3,559 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,545 | 42 | #2,811 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,295 | 25 | #3,886 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,929 | 26 | #3,615 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,140 | 22 | #4,003 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,426 | 18 | #4,424 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,488 | 8 | #7,650 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,320 | 12 | #5,667 |
| 2000 | under 5 | 15 | #4,781 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 7 | #7,880 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 6 | #8,481 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 6 | #8,126 | |
| 1993 | under 5 | 5 | #8,709 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #8,238 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 5 | #8,128 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Adonai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,466 Americans recorded as Adonai, 17% are girls and 83% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adonai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adonai, and how old are they?
1,450 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,466 Americans ever recorded as Adonai. The median Adonai alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 982 people named Adonai (185 women and girls, 797 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 973 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 14 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 486 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 952 |
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 Adonai born?
The states with the most babies named Adonai are Texas, Florida and California, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 17 | #1,217 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,126 | 0.4× |
| California | 8 | #1,831 | 0.9× |
Where Adonai is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adonai is most over-represented in Texas: since 1990 it was given 1.1 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 Adonai 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 2,184 babies since 1880, Adonai is the most given (67% of them). In 2025 it was given to 92 of their 121 babies (76%), 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 Adonai
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 Adonai and names like it
- Compare Adonai and AdonayBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdonai peaked in 2024.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adonai since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Adonai: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Adonai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adonai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.