Adonnis
Masculine · “lord”
Adonnis is a spelling of Adonis, and the name is Phoenician rather than Greek: adon is a Semitic word for a lord, the same one that stands inside the Hebrew Adonai.
How old is the name Adonnis?
Adonnis first appears in US birth records in 1980 — 45 years ago. The typical Adonnis is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 700 people named Adonnis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adonnis most popular?
Adonnis peaked in 2020, reaching #2505 nationally. Today it ranks #3513, 1,008 places below that high. See the whole 2020 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adon to Adonnis
The story of Adonnis
The cult of Adonis came to Greece from Phoenicia along with the name, which was a title rather than a personal name in its own language — the worshippers called him lord. The Greek story of a beautiful youth loved by Aphrodite and killed by a boar made the word a byword for male beauty in every European language. Its use as a given name is modern and American, and Adonnis with the doubled n is one of its spellings.
Meaning
lord
From the Phoenician and Canaanite adon, a lord or master; Greek took both the god and his title from the Levantine coast, and the same word appears in Hebrew as the standard reverent substitution for the divine name.
How the name formed
- adon
- Adonis
- Adonnis
Related forms: Adonis · Adonai · Adonis
Pronouncing Adonnis
uh-DON-iss
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Greek gives A-do-nis, with the stress at the front.
Nicknames for Adonnis
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
- 1980
- Most boys named
- 202051 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2505reached in 2020
- Change vs 2024
- −5.9%32 in 2025, from 34
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.
Adonnis in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adonis in Greek — spelling variant
- Adonai in Hebrew — related form
- Adonis in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Florida, New York.
Adonniss among us
people named Adonnis are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 53,377 born in 2025 was named Adonnis
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adonnis
- #3513
- Adonnis on the 2025 chart
- #236
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adonnis went to 32 boys in 2025, but Adonis and Adonys are the same name said out loud. Together the 4 spellings went to 1,515, which makes it the 236th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,277 places above the chart.
- Adonis1,462
- Adonnis32
- Adonys16
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 1,127 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,377 for Adonnis 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 Juandiego test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adonnis's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Juandiego climbed just as high around 2002, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Juandiego's path sketches the road Adonnis is walking now.
Adonnis 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 Adonnis is headed
Adonnis should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. 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.
Adonnis beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adonnis in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning with a documented Phoenician origin and a Greek afterlife.
- Don sits inside it as an entirely ordinary short form.
- Read correctly on sight by most English speakers.
- The word is an English byword for male beauty, and that will follow him.
- Adonis is the standard spelling and the doubled n will be corrected.
- The mythological figure dies young, which the story is largely about.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adonniss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 700 people named Adonnis are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adonnis?
- Adonnis is one of 3 recorded spellings. Adonis is the more common one — 1,462 births in 2025 against 32 for Adonnis.
- How popular is the name Adonnis in 2025?
- Adonnis ranks #3513 among US boy names in 2025, with 32 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adonnis?
- About 1 in every 53,377 US boys born in 2025 was named Adonnis — 32 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adonnis with classmates?
- Adonnis will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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