girls:
52 births since 1993
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
98 births since 1996
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
150 births since 1993
#7589 (2nd percentile)
The name Adar is the #7,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 150 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1993.
Adar first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Adar is available in 20 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (16 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Adar has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (65.3% of all recorded births). In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Adar were boys. Interestingly, until around 2001, the name was more popular for girls (68.8% girls from 1993 to 2000), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (69.4% boys from 2001 to 2023).
For boys, Adar reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #918) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Adar ranks #907 for boys (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 83.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Adar reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #943) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adar".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Adar. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 56.8% confident that Adar is pronounced as uh-DAHR, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-dahr, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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