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Adonay

Adonay reached its high-water mark in 2018 at number 3,446, and has been recorded 554 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 4,857th. About 550 Adonays are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

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

boys named Adonay

By the numbers

Total US births
554
Estimated living today
550
Median age today
11
Peak year
2018
Best rank
3,446th
Rank in 2025
4,857th
First recorded
1989

How old the living Adonays are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 554 babies given the name since 1989, about 550 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Adonay is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Adonay is most concentrated in California (6.4×), Texas (4.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2018

The most popular boys’ names the year Adonay peaked:

All the names of 2018

Adonay elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Switzerland boys Adonay 80 719th
England and Wales boys Adonay 73 1,951st
France boys Adonay 35 3,047th
France girls Adonay 35 7,261st

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.

Adonay: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Adonay 59 0.005% 628th
French boys Switzerland Adonay 19 0.004% 506th
Italian boys Switzerland Adonay 2 0.003% 182nd

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.

Where Adonay lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,876 men called Adonay 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
Palmas, Las Adonay 177 0.304 344
Santa Cruz de Tenerife Adonay 149 0.280 367
Cádiz Adonay 127 0.205 311
Granada Adonay 70 0.151 420
Sevilla Adonay 130 0.135 396
Málaga Adonay 99 0.113 564

Listed in 42 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 10 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.

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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.