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Adriel vs Adrielly

American parents have registered 34,751 Adriels since 1880, against 73 Adriellys. Adriel is still ahead, with 3,935 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adriel against Adrielly, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adriel Adrielly

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

Adriel has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1952 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2023, when Adriel had 3,216 and Adrielly had 30.

Side by side

  Adriel Adrielly
Total US births 34,75173
Most in one year 3,93530
Babies in 2025 3,9356
Estimated living today 34,00070
Median age today 52
Peak year 20252023
Best rank 84th boys4,565th girls
Rank in 2025 84th13,208th
First recorded 19522021
Girls / boys 1,106 / 33,64573 / 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 Adriels alive today are over 5; half the Adriellys are over 2. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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