Adil
Masculine · “just”
Adil is just in Arabic — al-Adl is a divine name — and the root is the word for justice itself.
How old is the name Adil?
Adil first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Adil alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,500 people named Adil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adil most popular?
Adil peaked in 1997, reaching #2096 nationally. Today it ranks #2641, 545 places below that high. See the whole 1997 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adl to Adil
The story of Adil
Adl names justice as an exact balance — the root also gives the words for adjustment and equivalence, so justice in Arabic is conceived as making things equal. Al-Adl is a divine name. Adil is standard across Arabic, Urdu and Turkish naming and appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
just, fair
From the Arabic adil, 'just' or 'fair', from adl, 'justice'. Al-Adl, the Just, is among the ninety-nine divine names. The same root gives ta'dil, 'adjustment', and mu'adil, 'equivalent'. The Arabic is documented.
How the name formed
- adl
- adil
- Adil
Related forms: عادل · Adil · Adil
Pronouncing Adil
AH-dil
Two syllables, stress on the first. The initial ayin of the Arabic has no English equivalent.
Nicknames for Adil
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 202549 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2096reached in 1997
- Change vs 2024
- +28.9%49 in 2025, from 38
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adil in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- عادل in Arabic — transliteration
- Adil in Turkish — same name
- Adil in Urdu — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: New York, Illinois, Minnesota.
Adils among us
people named Adil are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 34,859 born in 2025 was named Adil
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adil
- #2641
- Adil on the 2025 chart
- #866
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adil went to 49 boys in 2025, but Aadil is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 62, which makes it the 866th most-given boys’ name of the year — 1,775 places above the chart.
- Adil49
- Aadil13
About 1 boy in 27,550 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 34,859 for Adil itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Loreto test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adil's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Loreto climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Loreto's path sketches the road Adil is walking now.
Adil sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Adil is headed
Adil should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Adil beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adil in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That justice in Arabic is conceived as making things equal is a first-rate idea.
- It is one of the divine names in its definite form.
- Adi is available as a short form with real use.
- The initial consonant is not reproducible in English.
- It reads as specifically Muslim.
- Adil and Aadil are both in circulation.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adils are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Adil are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adil?
- Adil is the most-used spelling in US records — 49 of the 62 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Aadil.
- How popular is the name Adil in 2025?
- Adil ranks #2641 among US boy names in 2025, with 49 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adil?
- About 1 in every 34,859 US boys born in 2025 was named Adil — 49 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adil with classmates?
- Adil will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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