Adan

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Adan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Adan: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #1,116 in 2013, and it stood at #2,263 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
46times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#1116highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#3998
2004	#4598
2008	#3860
2010	#5707
2011	#2636
2013	#4739
2014	#2058
2015	#5730
2016	#2233
2017	#3583
2018	#5666
2019	#4686
2020	#3447
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#3318

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1337 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #1116 among boys in England and Wales, in 2013 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #3318 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Adan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 355 births with the name.

Adan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Adan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1337 (1996)	#1116 (2013)	#2263 (2024)	29 of 29	355 (1996–2024)	23 (2013)
England and Wales · Girls	#3998 (2001)	#2058 (2014)	#3318 (2024)	17 of 24	97 (2001–2024)	13 (2014)

Adan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Adan in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	25	4 of 10	6
2000s	105	10 of 10	11
2010sbusiest	164	10 of 10	16
2020s	61	5 of 10	12

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 16 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Adan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1116 in England and Wales in 2013.

Adan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3318	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2263	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1448	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3447	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1635	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1745	13	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#5666	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1610	15	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2172	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2233	12	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1431	18	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1511	16	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1313	19	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1158	22	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1724	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3860	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1706	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1506	14	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1280	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1534	12	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3998	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2220	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1889	6	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1337	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #1,116, first reached in 2013.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 23 births, registered in England and Wales in 2013.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Adanna · #790, 26y
Adaora · #2115, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Harveer · #1116, 29y
Yoel · #1117, 29y
Dhillon · #1113, 29y
Mikel · #1119, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Harveer · #1116, 29y
Maizy · #1117, 22y
Yoel · #1117, 29y
Dhillon · #1113, 29y

Adan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Adan without appearing here.

Adan moved ahead of

Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2007 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2263 and #5119.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Debra Compare
In 2013 they stood at #5707 and #4688 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #4684.

Moved ahead of Adan

Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #1240.
Meabh Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #4063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #5666 and #1711.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3318 and #1743.
Leif Compare
In 2021 they stood at #1448 and #1782 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #2320 and #967.

Moved the opposite way to Adan

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Adan

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adan went from #1337 to #2263 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #1116 in England and Wales in 2013. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Adan

Adan at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Adan across 2 official records

Adan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Adan appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Adan and the names beside it

Adan moved ahead of

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Adan at a glance

Adan across 2 official records

Adan by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Adan appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Adan and the names beside it

Adan moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Adan

Moved the opposite way to Adan

Moved the same way as Adan