Unisex name · since 2018
Adoniyah
12 babies named Adoniyah in U.S. Social Security records since 2018, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #51,398 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Adoniyah sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 12 recorded since 2018.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Adoniyah has been recorded 12 times among girls since 2018, though it is not among the currently most-used girls names, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2018 to 2022.
- #51,398 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 12 born since 2018
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Adoniyah ranks #51,398 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 12 born since 2018, peaking in the 2020s.
- #51,398 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 12
- born since 2018
- 2020s
- peak decade
Adoniyah's 12 recorded births place it above 27.4% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Adoniyah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Adoniyah's full recorded timeline at 2022, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2018, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2022 peak of 7 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Adoniyah popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–2022
- Peak year (2022)
- 7
- Annual births at peak, across 5 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000, last recorded 2022.
12 total births across 5 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 7 births in a single year.
Adoniyah popularity over time - boys
6 total births recorded since 2016 (Adoniyah as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Adoniyah accounts for 33% of total recorded use across both genders.
Adoniyah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (7 births, 58% of the file).
2020s was Adoniyah's strongest decade.
7 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Adoniyah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 7 births (58% of all-time use).
Adoniyah decade highlights
- Peak decade 7 births
- Runner-up 5 births
- Decades tracked with recorded births
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Two nationwide peer axes for Adoniyah: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2022)
Similar record span (~4 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2018–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Adoniyah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.
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