girls:
81 births since 1996
#5635 (1st percentile)
boys:
595 births since 1891
#3991 (13th percentile)
overall:
676 births since 1891
#7063 (9th percentile)
The name Adlai is the #7,063 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 676 recorded births since 1891. This represents the 8.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,991 (12.9% percentile) for all time with 595 births since 1891. For girls, it ranks #5,635 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 81 births since 1996.
Adlai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1891 (1891 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Adlai is available in 55 out of the 133 years between 1891 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 13 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 Adlai has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Adlai were boys.
For boys, Adlai reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 5.6% percentile (ranked #579) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1892, with 129 births per million (ranked 5.4% percentile). Despite a low point around 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Adlai ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 3.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Adlai reached its peak popularity in 2014, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #963) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adlai".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Adlai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Adlai is pronounced as AD-lai, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AD-lay, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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