Admiral
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Admiral has been given to 263 babies in the U.S. since 1898. 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 1898, with 25 recorded.
Babies named Admiral, 2022
1 in 564,000
Admiral 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Admiral?
Admiral had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2022
- 1 in 564,000
- 6 of 3,385,755 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2022
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,139 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Admiral sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2022 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Admiral. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Admirals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Admiral was born before 1925 — so the typical Admiral is around 100 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 27.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 4.6%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 48
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (73).
Is Admiral 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 1898 (25)
- Years since peak
- 127
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.6% average annual change
Admiral by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Admiral
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Admiral
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.