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Adal

#7,198 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Old Turkic origin

Adal has been given to 408 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #7,198 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Adal, 2025

1 in 301,000

Adal over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adal: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Old Turkic origin

Old Turkic

What Adal means

Adal is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Adal is used in Turkish. Its origins include Old Turkic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Turkish, Adal is pronounced /ɑˈdɑɫ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 408 boys were recorded with the name Adal between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2006; its best national rank was #2,731 in 2000.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,982 in 2020 to #7,198 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,198
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adal was born before 2006 — so the typical Adal is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
58.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
408
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2000s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (239).

Is Adal rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,000
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,216
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
28.9%
Peak was 2006 (38)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,731
2000

Spellings of Adal

Adal is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 29.5% against Adal's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Adal is used

Across 1910–2025, Adal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 313,226 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adal around the world

Where Adal ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Adal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,198
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,216
Best rank ever
#2,731
2000
Peak year
2006
38 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
408
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Adal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Adal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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