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Admiral

Admiral is a boy's name that peaked in 1898, when it was the 394th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 50 Admirals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 60.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Admiral

By the numbers

Total US births
263
Estimated living today
50
Median age today
60
Peak year
1898
Best rank
394th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1898

How old the living Admirals are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 4 8 12 16 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 263 babies given the name since 1898, about 50 are alive — 19 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1965 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Admirals

People named Admiral with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Names of 1898

The most popular boys’ names the year Admiral peaked:

All the names of 1898

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.