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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Adam

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

#101

down −1 places

2025 births

3,501

down −6 births

All-time births

580,378

1% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1984
23,939 births
Best rank
#18
in 1983
First recorded
1880
#123 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1988
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
146 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 198423,939#18Peak
  2. 198323,488#18
  3. 198520,165#22
  4. 198220,099#19
  5. 198120,044#20

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #18 in 1983 · peak births 23,939 in 1984

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 100% boys■ 0% girls

580,378 boys · 2,075 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Adam has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.