first name
ADEL
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 6,282 people named Adel, 73.9% reported their origin as White, 11.3% as Hispanic or Latino and 6.1% as Black. 79.4% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Adel peaked in 2006, when 65 babies got the name.
At least 3,002 babies have been given the name since 1888. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Adel by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1890s, when it ranked #2,570. The largest share of babies named Adel, 26.7%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Either side of Adel
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Adel, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Adel ranks #29,905 of 156,621, with 839 people. See Adel as a last name
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