Adley
Masculine
Adley is given to both — 663 boys and 6,160 girls since 1880. See Adley as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Adley may be the Hebrew for God's justice, an English place name, or a modern coinage — none of the three is settled.
How old is the name Adley?
Adley first appears in US birth records in 1918 — 107 years ago. The typical Adley is a kid of about 8 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Adley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adley most popular?
Adley peaked in 2024, reaching #1938 nationally. Today it ranks #2572, 634 places below that high. See the whole 2024 chart.
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Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Adley
Our story of Adley is a story of three roads to one sound. Hebrew has Adlai, named once in Chronicles, and read as God's justice. English place names ending in -ley are everywhere and mean a clearing. And American naming has been building on Ad- fronts since the 2000s. Adley appears in the registers in that decade, used for both sexes, and which route a family took is not recorded.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Unsettled. Proposals include the Hebrew Adlai, 'God is just' or 'my ornament'; an English place name from the Old English leah, 'clearing'; and a modern American coinage. The leah element is settled where that route holds; the front is not.
Pronouncing Adley
AD-lee
Two syllables, stress on the first. Adley and Adlee are said identically.
Nicknames for Adley
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
- 1918
- Most boys named
- 202481 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1938reached in 2024
- Change vs 2024
- −37.0%51 in 2025, from 81
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.
Adley in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adlee in English — spelling variant
- Adlai in Hebrew — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Maryland, Florida, Oregon.
Adleys among us
people named Adley are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 33,492 born in 2025 was named Adley
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Cordarro test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adley's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Cordarro climbed just as high around 1987, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Cordarro's path sketches the road Adley is walking now.
Adley 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 Adley is headed
Adley is on a steep climb — if the curve holds, 2030 could see around 88% more babies given the name than today. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low 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.
Adley beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adley in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Lee is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- Two clean syllables with no pronunciation risk.
- The Hebrew route gives a strong meaning where it holds.
- No single origin is established.
- It is used for both sexes in America.
- It will need spelling out every time.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adleys are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Adley are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adley in 2025?
- Adley ranks #2572 among US boy names in 2025, with 51 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adley?
- About 1 in every 33,492 US boys born in 2025 was named Adley — 51 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adley with classmates?
- Adley will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Adley
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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