Adams
#3,449 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Adams has been given to 1,230 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #3,449 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1983, with 42 recorded.
Babies named Adams, 2025
1 in 100,000
Adams over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Adams?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 100,000
- 33 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 51,800
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,449
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 69,634 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Adams sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adams. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Adamss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Adams was born before 1988 — so the typical Adams is around 37 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,102
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (329).
Is Adams 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
- −234
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +4,055
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,618
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 78.6%
- Peak was 1983 (42)
- Years since peak
- 42
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.3% average annual change
Spellings of Adams
Adams is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 92.4% against Adams's 0.20%.
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 Adams is used
Across 1910–2025, Adams was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 414,959 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Ohio1 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. Adams has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Adams around the world
Where Adams 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 & Wales2012–2024#5,120in 2024
- Ireland2007–2007#629in 2007
- France1975–2025#3,048in 2025
- Canada2002–2022#2,602in 2022
- South Australia1976–1976#651in 1976
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adams by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Adams
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Adams
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.