Adriel
Adriel was given to 3,921 boys in 2025, #84 among boys’ names; 34,751 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,400 Americans named Adriel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adriel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adriel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adriel is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the sense “flock of God” (עדריאל).
Borrowed from Hebrew עדריאל (“flock of God”).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adriel?
#84 among boys’ names, 2025
Adriel rose from #287 in 2015 to #84 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.67 to 2.3 per 1,000.
3,935 babies in 2025, the peak
Adriel peaked in 2025, when 3,935 babies were given it (3,921 boys, #84 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 3,253 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,921 | #84 | 2.3 |
| 2024 | 3,253 | #109 | 1.9 |
| 2023 | 3,195 | #113 | 1.9 |
| 2022 | 2,693 | #139 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 2,477 | #154 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,611 | #140 | 1.5 |
| 2019 | 2,127 | #185 | 1.2 |
| 2018 | 1,648 | #232 | 0.91 |
| 2017 | 1,469 | #253 | 0.79 |
| 2016 | 1,595 | #241 | 0.84 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,290 | #287 | 0.67 |
| 2014 | 694 | #438 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 585 | #474 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 600 | #453 | 0.32 |
| 2011 | 593 | #454 | 0.31 |
| 2010 | 500 | #516 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 525 | #511 | 0.26 |
| 2008 | 431 | #586 | 0.21 |
| 2007 | 376 | #645 | 0.18 |
| 2006 | 308 | #710 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 243 | #795 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 223 | #804 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 212 | #825 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 176 | #912 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 137 | #1,053 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,064 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 114 | #1,147 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,243 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,323 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 87 | #1,264 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 80 | #1,307 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 73 | #1,358 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 77 | #1,290 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 66 | #1,392 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 89 | #1,164 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,131 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 55 | #1,488 | 0.03 |
| 1988 | 57 | #1,369 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 58 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 48 | #1,438 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 42 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 50 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,374 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 47 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 45 | #1,411 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 33 | #1,726 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 37 | #1,538 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 21 | #2,203 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 24 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 21 | #2,133 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 12 | #2,945 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #2,605 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 12 | #2,820 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,145 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,065 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #2,760 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,536 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,042 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,024 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #3,888 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,449 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,532 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 10 | #2,517 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Adriel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 34,751 Americans recorded as Adriel, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls and 3,921 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Adriel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adriel, and how old are they?
34,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,751 Americans ever recorded as Adriel. The median Adriel alive today is 6 years old; half are between 3 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 13,945 people named Adriel (907 women and girls, 13,038 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,936 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 41 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 271 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,170 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 27,900 |
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 Adriel born?
The states with the most babies named Adriel are California, Texas and Arizona, with 53% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 959 | #24 | 1.8× |
| Texas | 885 | #24 | 1.9× |
| Arizona | 209 | #16 | 2.3× |
| Florida | 156 | #139 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 139 | #81 | 0.9× |
| New York | 135 | #144 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 101 | #55 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 101 | #70 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 95 | #130 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 91 | #130 | 0.5× |
Where Adriel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adriel is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1952 it was given 2.3 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 Adriel 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 35,039 babies since 1880, Adriel is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 3,935 of their 3,954 babies (100%), 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 Adriel
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 Adriel and names like it
- Compare Adriel and AdryelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdriel peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adriel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Adriel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Adriel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adriel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.