Adore
#1,777 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Adore has been given to 1,181 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #1,777 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 131 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% girls, 6% boys all-time.
Babies named Adore, 2025
1 in 29,300
Adore 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Adore over time
In 2025, Adore went to 90% girls and 10% 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 Adore?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,300
- 113 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,200
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,777
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,337 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Adore 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 20,337 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adore. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Adores were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Adore was born before 2021 — so the typical Adore is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 64.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 99.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,108
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (712).
Is Adore 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
- −140
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +228
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,293
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.14×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 86.3%
- Peak was 2022 (131)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.9% average annual change
Spellings of Adore
Adore is not the most common spelling — Dora is, with 42.0% against Adore's 0.44%.
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 Adore is used
Across 2016–2025, Adore was most concentrated in District of Columbia — about 1 in 2,564 girls, against 1 in 17,396 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1District of Columbia1 in 2,564
- 2Georgia1 in 7,692
- 3Illinois1 in 7,692
- 4Maryland1 in 11,111
- 5Ohio1 in 11,111
- 6South Carolina1 in 12,500
- 7Florida1 in 14,286
- 8Michigan1 in 14,286
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.
Adore by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Adore
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Adore
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.