Adhan
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Adhan has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 2017. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2017, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Adhan, 2024
1 in 557,000
Adhan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Adhan?
Adhan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Adhan sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adhan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Adhans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Adhan was born before 2022 — so the typical Adhan is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 63.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 22
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 63.6% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Adhan 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2017 (8)
- Years since peak
- 8
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Adhan
Adhan is not the most common spelling — Nathan is, with 19.4% against Adhan's <0.01%.
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.
Adhan around the world
Where Adhan 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.
- France2005–2024#2,708in 2024
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Adhan by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Adhan
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Adhan
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.