Gaddiel
Gaddiel was given to 18 boys in 2025, #5,276 among boys’ names; 291 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gaddiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gaddiel?
#5,276 among boys’ names, 2025
Gaddiel rose from #12,696 in 2015 to #5,276 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 10.5 per million.
22 babies in 2021, the peak
Gaddiel peaked in 2021, when 22 boys were given it, #4,531 among boys’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 82% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #5,276 | 10.5 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,575 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,304 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,265 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 22 | #4,531 | 12.6 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,751 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,678 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 14 | #6,131 | 7.7 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,374 | 4.9 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,630 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #12,696 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 7 | #9,980 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,744 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,133 | 4.2 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,150 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #6,804 | 6.3 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,362 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,521 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 13 | #6,375 | 6.3 |
| 2006 | 8 | #8,975 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 9 | #7,846 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #11,943 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,087 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,750 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #7,779 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,682 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,073 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Gaddiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gaddiel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gaddiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gaddiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 288 Americans named Gaddiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 273 people named Gaddiel (4 women and girls, 269 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 205 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Gaddiel?
Gaddiel is a less common spelling of Gadiel: SSA has recorded 291 Gaddiel and 2,568 Gadiel since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,859 babies since 1880, Gaddiel is the second most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 191 babies (9.4%), again the second 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 Gaddiel
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 Gaddiel and names like it
- Compare Gaddiel and GadielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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