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Adan vs Adarsh

American parents have registered 31,624 Adans since 1880, against 628 Adarshes. Adan is still ahead, with 631 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adan against Adarsh, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adan Adarsh

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Adan has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1904 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Adan had 499 and Adarsh had 24.

Side by side

  Adan Adarsh
Total US births 31,624628
Most in one year 1,16440
Babies in 2025 63115
Estimated living today 30,000620
Median age today 1817
Peak year 20052008
Best rank 287th boys2,946th boys
Rank in 2025 482nd5,861st
First recorded 19041975
Girls / boys 146 / 31,4780 / 628

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Adan Adarsh
England and Wales 46685

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adan and Adarsh.