Boys' name · since 2015
Gadriel
Gadriel has 63 recorded births since 2015 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #20,539 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,384 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
63 babies have been named Gadriel since 2015, making it today's #4384 boys' name.
Gadriel has 63 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #4384 as of the latest data, more common than 69% of boys, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2025.
- #20,539 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- #4,384 of 13,930 2025 SSA year
- 63 born since 2015
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Gadriel ranks #20,539 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #4,384 of 13,930 among boys' names in 2025. 63 born since 2015, peaking in the 2020s.
- #20,539 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- #4,384 of 13,930
- 2025 SSA year
- 63
- born since 2015
- 2020s
- peak decade
Gadriel's 63 recorded births place it above 54.68% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Gadriel compares
63 19th percentile among 13,930 names currently given to boys
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked boys names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Gadriel's all-time total is 83% below the median boys name, and Liam still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Gadriel | Median boys name (Takari) | #1 boys name (Liam) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 63 | 369 | 358,536 |
| Peak-year births | 24 | 34 | 22,252 |
Gadriel's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Gadriel splits its recorded history at 2023: 68% of all births land in the more recent half, 32% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2015 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2025 peak of 24 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Gadriel popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 24
- Annual births at peak, across 11 years of records
Gadriel by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (58 births, 92% of the file).
2020s was Gadriel's strongest decade.
58 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 92% of all-time use.
Gadriel births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
58 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 58 births (92% of all-time use).
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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, 2015–2025 (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 Gadriel 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.