Adonijah — #5990 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Adonijah

The Social Security Administration has registered 470 babies named Adonijah between 1982 and 2024, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Adonijah currently holds the #5990 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 33 babies received it in a single year. Adonijah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 26 additional births since 1998.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Adonijah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 207 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Adonijah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Adonijah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Adonijah 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 470 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.