Adoniah
#10,120 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Adoniah has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,120 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 58% girls, 42% boys all-time.
Babies named Adoniah, 2025
1 in 368,000
Adoniah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Adoniah over time
In 2025, Adoniah went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
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.
How common is Adoniah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 179,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #10,120
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Adoniah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adoniah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Adoniahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Adoniah was born before 2018 — so the typical Adoniah is around 7 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 65
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (33).
Is Adoniah 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
- +2,060
- Places climbed
- 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2023 (9)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Spellings of Adoniah
Adoniah is not the most common spelling — Aniah is, with 57.6% against Adoniah's 1.1%.
Adoniah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Adoniah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Adoniah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.