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Adleigh vs Adler

American parents have registered 4,156 Adlers since 1880, against 1,410 Adleighs. Adler is still ahead, with 292 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adleigh against Adler, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adleigh Adler

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

Adler has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1985 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2012, when Adleigh had 112 and Adler had 173.

Side by side

  Adleigh Adler
Total US births 1,4104,156
Most in one year 125292
Babies in 2025 52292
Estimated living today 1,4004,100
Median age today 98
Peak year 20172025
Best rank 1,703rd girls871st boys
Rank in 2025 3,100th871st
First recorded 20031985
Girls / boys 1,410 / 0398 / 3,758

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 Adleigh Adler
England and Wales 618

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: Adleigh and Adler.