Adell
Adell is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 6 births. Its best rank was 426th, in 1910.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 60.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1921197 births
- Best rank
- #426in 1910
- Since 1881
- 7,255people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,206 girls have been named Adell in the United States since 1881, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 197 births.
The name has all but left use: 6 births in 2024, against 197 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1926, and the 1920s alone account for 26%. It has spent 60 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,049 boys have also been given it, 14% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 181 | |
| 1900s | 432 | |
| 1910s | 1,270 | |
| 1920s | 1,639 | |
| 1930s | 898 | |
| 1940s | 587 | |
| 1950s | 491 | |
| 1960s | 171 | |
| 1970s | 112 | |
| 1980s | 92 | |
| 1990s | 53 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 112 | |
| 2020s | 23 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Adell was the 500th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1921 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Adell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Albertapeak 1919
- Helenpeak 1918
- Myrtispeak 1921
- Paulinepeak 1918
- Irenepeak 1921
- Odessapeak 1920
- Ermapeak 1920
- Corinepeak 1920
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.