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Adonay

#4,857 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Adonai

Adonay has been given to 554 babies in the U.S. since 1989. In 2025 it ranked #4,857 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 32 recorded.

Babies named Adonay, 2025

1 in 166,000

Adonay over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adonay: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Adonai

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adonay means

Adonay is a variant of Adonai.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adonay → Adonai. The family’s meaning is “my lord”, recorded in the naming reference for Adonai.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adonai.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 554 boys were recorded with the name Adonay between 1989 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 32 in 2018; its best national rank was #3,443 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,425 in 2020 to #4,857 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,716 in 2015 to #4,857 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.

How common is Adonay?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 85,400
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,857
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adonay 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adonay. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adonays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adonay was born before 2014 — so the typical Adonay is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
554
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.4% of all recorded uses (235).

Is Adonay 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
−538
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−432
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−141
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.00×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.5%
Peak was 2018 (32)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,443
2018

Spellings of Adonay

Adonay is not the most common spelling — Adonis is, with 44.8% against Adonay's 1.1%.

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 Adonay is used

Across 1910–2025, Adonay was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 374,343 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 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. Adonay has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adonay around the world

Where Adonay 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
    2004–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2018–2022
    #4,834
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #2,134
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adonay by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,857
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 432
Best rank ever
#3,443
2018
Peak year
2018
32 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
554
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Adonay

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

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Sibling names for Adonay

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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