Adore
Feminine · “to worship”
Adore is given to both — 1,108 girls and 73 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Adore is Latin for praying to — adorare, from ad and orare, to speak toward — and it meant worship long before it meant fondness.
How old is the name Adore?
Adore first appears in US birth records in 2000 — 25 years ago. The typical Adore is a kid of about 4 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Adore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adore most popular?
Adore peaked in 2022, reaching #1612 nationally. Today it ranks #1777, 165 places below that high. See the whole 2022 chart.
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Where it comes from
From adorare to Adore
The story of Adore
Adorare was a religious verb in Latin and stayed one in English until the seventeenth century, when it began to soften. Word-names rose in American naming from the 2000s, and Adore appears in the registers in that period — helped by a performer of the name. It is in current use.
Meaning
to worship, to love deeply
From the Latin adorare, 'to address' or 'to worship', from ad, 'to', and orare, 'to speak' or 'to pray' — the same orare behind oration and oracle. The sense of ordinary affection is a much later softening. The Latin is documented and undisputed.
How the name formed
- adorare
- adore
- Adore
Related forms: Adore · Adora · Adora
Pronouncing Adore
uh-DOR
Two syllables, stress on the second. It is a homophone of the ordinary English verb.
Nicknames for Adore
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
- 2000
- Most girls named
- 2022131 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1612reached in 2022
- Change vs 2024
- −10.3%113 in 2025, from 126
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.
Adore in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adore in French — same name
- Adora in Spanish — related form
- Adora in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Illinois, Georgia, Florida.
Adores among us
people named Adore are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 14,224 born in 2025 was named Adore
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 Janella test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adore's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Janella climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Janella's path sketches the road Adore is walking now.
Adore 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 Adore is headed
Adore looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 20% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
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.
Adore beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adore in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The speak-toward etymology is a genuinely good piece of word history.
- The end stress gives it a strong rhythm against a front-stressed surname.
- Dora is available as a short form with a real record.
- It is an ordinary English verb and reads as one.
- It is a near-homophone of 'a door', which will be noticed.
- It is very new as a given name.
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Feminine · #1777 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Adores are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Adore are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Adore in 2025?
- Adore ranks #1777 among US girl names in 2025, with 113 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adore?
- About 1 in every 14,224 US girls born in 2025 was named Adore — 113 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adore with classmates?
- Adore will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Adore
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