Adel
Recorded 1888–2025 · United States
Adel was most popular in 2006, when 65 American babies were given the name — ranking #4,670 that year. In 2025 it ranked #5,412, with 53 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 3,002 people named Adel.
Adel over time
How old is the name Adel?
Adel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1888, which makes it about 137 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 125 of the 138 years since.
How many people are named Adel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 3,002 American births named Adel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,331 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Adel in 2025?
53 American babies were named Adel in 2025, ranking #5,412 that year.
Is Adel getting more or less popular?
Adel is holding steady. Across 2021–2025 it averaged 55 births a year, against 59 a year across 2011–2015 — a change of -5% over the decade.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Adel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Adel is a unisex name — 49.8% of the 3,002 Americans given it were girls and 50.2% were boys. It changed hands: since 2025 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that. In births since 2016 it is 37% girls and 63% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Adel?
Roughly 2,331 Americans named Adel are alive today — 78% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 21 years old, and half are between 11 and 37.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Adel is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org