Adley

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Adley: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #351, reached in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
29times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#351highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2016–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2016	#3609
2017	#2925
2018	#2901
2019	#2869
2020	#1687
2021	#2499
2022	#2325
2023	#2504
2024	#2771

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 19 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #351 among girls in Scotland, #2771 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #2863 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
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2771 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Adley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 19 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 196 births with the name.

Adley 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.

Adley'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	#2863 (1996)	#1056 (2019)	#1675 (2024)	19 of 29	196 (1996–2024)	26 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#3609 (2016)	#1687 (2020)	#2771 (2024)	9 of 9	87 (2016–2024)	17 (2020)

Adley 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 Adley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	13	3 of 10	4
2010s	91	10 of 10	9
2020sbusiest	89	5 of 10	18

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 18 births a year.

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

Adley appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #351 in Scotland in 2024.

Adley'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	#2771	9	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2504	10	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#2325	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1534	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1687	17	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1056	26	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#2901	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1382	18	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2925	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3609	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2707	7	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2459	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2954	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2458	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#4678	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3744	4	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2870	5	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#2863	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#351	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #351, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 26 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

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.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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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A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Chizaram · #351, 18y
Reanne · #351, 18y
Ava-Grace · #353, 19y
Daniels · #354, 19y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Aislin · #351, 12y
Daniyal · #351, 29y
Elspeth · #351, 29y
Geri · #351, 8y

Adley was ranked #351 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adley 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 Adley without appearing here.

Adley moved ahead of

Cheryl Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2286 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1687 and #5493.
Cooper Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #2643 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #1687 and #5493.
Garry Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4810 and #3079 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1382 and #4749.
Jade Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4810 and #4023 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #1382 and #4749.

Moved ahead of Adley

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2504 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #2771 and #1743.
Eabha Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3609 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #2925 and #2201.
Arlo Compare
In 2020 they stood at #1687 and #2843 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #2499 and #1785.
Aksel Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1363 and #1461 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #1132.

Moved the opposite way to Adley

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 while Aaron went from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 while Adam went from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 while Alan went from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 while Alex went from #43 to #171.

Moved the same way as Adley

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 and Albie from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 and Alfie from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 and Alfred from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Adley went from #2863 to #1675 and Archie from #192 to #10.

What's not yet available

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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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #351 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Adley

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Popularity journey

Adley across 2 official records

Adley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Adley across 2 official records

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