Adonai
Adonai reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 1,685, and has been recorded 1,466 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,942nd. About 1,500 Adonais are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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Girls and boys called Adonai
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Adonai crossed from girls to boys in 2003, and has stayed there for 23 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 86%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 24 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,466
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2024
- Best rank
- 1,685th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,942nd
- First recorded
- 1990
- Girls / boys
- 243 / 1,223
How old the living Adonais are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,466 babies given the name since 1990, about 1,500 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 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.
Where Adonai is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adonai is most concentrated in Texas (4.9×), California (3.6×), Georgia (2.2×), Florida (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2024
The most popular boys’ names the year Adonai peaked:
Adonai elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Adonaï +1 spelling | 210 | 2,111th |
| England and Wales boys | Adonai | 127 | 1,439th |
| France girls | Adonaï +1 spelling | 60 | 4,916th |
| Switzerland boys | Adonai | 24 | 1,287th |
| England and Wales girls | Adonai | 7 | 4,524th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adonai: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Adonai | 15 | 0.001% | 1,120th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Adonai | 7 | 0.002% | 627th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Adonai | 2 | 0.003% | 203rd |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Adonai among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Adonai | — | 7 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Adonai lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 484 men called Adonai were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Palencia | Adonai | 7 | 0.089 | 697 |
| Palmas, Las | Adonai | 49 | 0.084 | 1,030 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Adonai | 43 | 0.081 | 1,067 |
| Cádiz | Adonai | 24 | 0.039 | 965 |
| Burgos | Adonai | 7 | 0.039 | 1,244 |
| Málaga | Adonai | 33 | 0.038 | 1,349 |
Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Adonai against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.