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Adlai

#10,715 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Form of Adalia

Adlai has been given to 696 babies in the U.S. since 1891. In 2025 it ranked #10,715 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 39 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Adlai, 2025

1 in 553,000

Adlai over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Adlai over time

In 2025, Adlai went to 54% girls and 46% boys.

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A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Adlai: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Adalia

Hebrew

What Adlai means

Adlai is a form of Adalia.

Origin, language, and formation

Adlai is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Adlai comes through Hebrew עדלי.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adalia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 608 boys were recorded with the name Adlai between 1891 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1952; its best national rank was #480 in 1892.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,084 in 2020 to #10,715 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,059 in 2015 to #10,715 in 2025.

In the United States, 88 girls were recorded with the name Adlai between 1996 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2014; its best national rank was #10,980 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,478 in 2020 to #11,952 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 Adlai?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,715
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adlai 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adlai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adlais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adlai was born before 2002 — so the typical Adlai is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
25.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
545
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2010s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (157).

Is Adlai 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
−804
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,631
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,656
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.4%
Peak was 1952 (39)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#480
1892

Spellings of Adlai

Adlai is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 49.8% against Adlai's 0.05%.

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 Adlai is used

Across 1910–2025, Adlai was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,422,413 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 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. Adlai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adlai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,715
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,631
Best rank ever
#480
1892
Peak year
1952
39 that year
First recorded
1891
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
608
Count in 2025
6

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,526
Best rank ever
#10,980
2014
Peak year
2014
9 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
88
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Adlai

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

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Sibling names for Adlai

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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