Adonis
Adonis was given to 1,462 boys in 2025, #241 among boys’ names; 21,694 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,300 Americans named Adonis and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adonis by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adonis mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adonis is “a male given name from Ancient Greek.”
From Ancient Greek Ἄδωνις (Ádōnis).
/əˈdɑn.ɪs/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adonis?
#241 among boys’ names, 2025
Adonis rose from #698 in 2015 to #241 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.19 to 0.86 per 1,000.
2,108 babies in 2023, the peak
Adonis peaked in 2023, when 2,108 babies were given it (2,102 boys, #175 among boys’ names). The 1,462 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,462 | #241 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 1,721 | #206 | 1.0 |
| 2023 | 2,102 | #175 | 1.2 |
| 2022 | 1,613 | #224 | 0.92 |
| 2021 | 1,726 | #222 | 1.0 |
| 2020 | 1,677 | #223 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,545 | #242 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 902 | #366 | 0.50 |
| 2017 | 813 | #394 | 0.44 |
| 2016 | 804 | #395 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 360 | #698 | 0.19 |
| 2014 | 336 | #717 | 0.17 |
| 2013 | 343 | #696 | 0.18 |
| 2012 | 374 | #640 | 0.20 |
| 2011 | 335 | #694 | 0.18 |
| 2010 | 269 | #804 | 0.14 |
| 2009 | 292 | #779 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 251 | #851 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 289 | #759 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 251 | #812 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 230 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 232 | #783 | 0.12 |
| 2003 | 211 | #827 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 189 | #867 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 179 | #879 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 222 | #755 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 194 | #788 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 193 | #789 | 0.10 |
| 1997 | 188 | #786 | 0.10 |
| 1996 | 172 | #830 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 315 | #577 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 177 | #796 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 156 | #846 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 90 | #1,158 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 106 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 82 | #1,196 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 50 | #1,585 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 63 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #1,437 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 59 | #1,254 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,543 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 47 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 52 | #1,274 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 63 | #1,150 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 44 | #1,432 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,227 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 74 | #1,028 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,537 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 40 | #1,450 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 58 | #1,111 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,238 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 46 | #1,229 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,649 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 24 | #1,823 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 23 | #1,847 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,863 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 16 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,138 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #2,326 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 15 | #2,083 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 21 | #1,729 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,858 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,356 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,337 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,034 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,360 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,434 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 23 | #1,592 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,185 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,737 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,663 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,531 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,522 | under 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #3,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,644 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 5 | #4,239 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,188 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adonis a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adonis has been given almost only to boys: 101 girls in 83 years of records.
Girls and boys named Adonis: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adonis, and how old are they?
21,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 21,694 Americans ever recorded as Adonis. The median Adonis alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 10,674 people named Adonis (199 women and girls, 10,475 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 11,569 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 114 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 483 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,530 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15,300 |
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 Adonis born?
The states with the most babies named Adonis are Texas, California and Florida, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 178 | #218 | 0.9× |
| California | 134 | #277 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 119 | #185 | 1.3× |
| New York | 107 | #186 | 1.7× |
| Georgia | 75 | #166 | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 55 | #226 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 53 | #230 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 48 | #259 | 0.8× |
| Virginia | 47 | #190 | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 45 | #252 | 1.1× |
Where Adonis is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adonis is most over-represented in New York: since 1918 it was given 1.7 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 Adonis 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 23,068 babies since 1880, Adonis is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,462 of their 1,535 babies (95%), 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 Adonis
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 Adonis and names like it
- Compare Adonis and AdonnisBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdonis peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adonis since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Adonis: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Adonis.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adonis alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.