Adam
Adam is ranked 100th among boys in 2024 (3,497 births). Its best rank was 18th, in 1983–1984.
- Rank in 2024
- #100up 3 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,4970.20% of boys
- Peak year
- 198423,940 births
- Best rank
- #18first in 1983
- Since 1880
- 578,925people given the name
The story in the numbers
576,860 boys have been named Adam in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1984, with 23,940 births — 1.3% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 79 → 100).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1987, and the 1980s alone account for 34%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 53 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 2,065 girls have also been given it, 0.36% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Adam | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,020 | |
| 1890s | 863 | |
| 1900s | 1,021 | |
| 1910s | 4,480 | |
| 1920s | 4,455 | |
| 1930s | 2,409 | |
| 1940s | 2,436 | |
| 1950s | 3,732 | |
| 1960s | 22,931 | |
| 1970s | 91,752 | |
| 1980s | 195,084 | |
| 1990s | 106,906 | |
| 2000s | 71,026 | |
| 2010s | 50,696 | |
| 2020s | 18,049 |
In 1984, its biggest year
Adam was the 18th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1984 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and David. See all of 1984.
Names that rose and fell with Adam
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amitpeak 1983
- Matthewpeak 1983
- Dujuanpeak 1981
- Justonpeak 1980
- Antwanpeak 1980
- Jeredpeak 1982
- Travispeak 1989
- Caseypeak 1990
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.