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Adnan

#1,539 in 2025Boys' name

Settler

Adnan has been given to 2,996 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #1,539 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 118 recorded.

Babies named Adnan, 2025

1 in 29,600

Adnan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adnan: meaning, origin, and history

Settler

Arabic

What Adnan means

Adnan means “settler”, associated with ʕadnān.

Origin, language, and formation

Adnan is used in English, Albanian, Indonesian, Serbo-Croatian and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic.

Adnan comes through Arabic عَدْنَان.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,996 boys were recorded with the name Adnan between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 118 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,437 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,937 in 2020 to #1,539 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,767 in 2015 to #1,539 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 Adnan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,600
112 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 15,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,539
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,518 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adnan 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adnan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adnans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adnan was born before 2009 — so the typical Adnan is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
26.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,996
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 26.8% of all recorded uses (802).

Is Adnan 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
−22
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+398
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+228
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.9%
Peak was 2023 (118)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,437
2001

Spellings of Adnan

Adnan is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 30.0% against Adnan's 0.15%.

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 Adnan is used

Across 2016–2025, Adnan was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 2,128 boys, against 1 in 17,020 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

147 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 2,128
  2. 2New York1 in 8,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 9,091
  4. 4Virginia1 in 11,111
  5. 5Michigan1 in 12,500
  6. 6Ohio1 in 16,667
  7. 7California1 in 20,000
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 25,000

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.

Adnan around the world

Where Adnan 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
    1996–2025
    #585
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1980–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2025
    #676
    in 2025
  • France
    1972–2025
    #931
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2023
    #335
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #977
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Adnan

People whose public names include Adnan, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Adnan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,539
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 398
Best rank ever
#1,437
2001
Peak year
2023
118 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,996
Count in 2025
112

Names similar to Adnan

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

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Names with a curve like Adnan

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Adnan, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Adnan

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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