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Adiel vs Adina

American parents have registered 7,364 Adinas since 1880, against 3,063 Adiels. But in 2025 it was Adiel that was commoner, 185 babies to 179.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adiel against Adina, 1880 to 2025 0 50 100 150 200 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adiel Adina

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 114 years in which either name was published, Adina for 106 years and Adiel for 8 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Adiel Adina
Total US births 3,0637,364
Most in one year 196179
Babies in 2025 185179
Estimated living today 3,0006,900
Median age today 927
Peak year 20212025
Best rank 1,100th boys1,250th girls
Rank in 2025 1,141st1,250th
First recorded 19801880
Girls / boys 119 / 2,9447,364 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Adinas alive today are over 27; half the Adiels are over 9. That is 18 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Adiel Adina
England and Wales 63550
France 35170

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adiel and Adina.