# Adil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adil/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,553 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,553 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,143, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic عَادِل (ʕādil).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 2,905 |
| 2012 | 47 | 2,594 |
| 2013 | 33 | 3,266 |
| 2014 | 38 | 2,985 |
| 2015 | 46 | 2,642 |
| 2016 | 34 | 3,295 |
| 2017 | 40 | 2,951 |
| 2018 | 40 | 2,944 |
| 2019 | 44 | 2,808 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,076 |
| 2021 | 35 | 3,299 |
| 2022 | 43 | 2,921 |
| 2023 | 37 | 3,229 |
| 2024 | 38 | 3,162 |
| 2025 | 49 | 2,641 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 56 | 615 |
| 2012 | 67 | 542 |
| 2013 | 50 | 666 |
| 2014 | 48 | 684 |
| 2015 | 44 | 740 |
| 2016 | 43 | 765 |
| 2017 | 39 | 818 |
| 2018 | 35 | 870 |
| 2019 | 37 | 825 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 37 | 841 |
| 2022 | 33 | 925 |
| 2023 | 30 | 987 |
| 2024 | 33 | 945 |
| 2025 | 38 | 845 |

## People named Adil

- Adil Rami, French footballer (born 1985)
- Adil Çarçani, Albanian politician (1922-1997)
- Adil Aouchiche, French footballer (born 2002)
- Adil Shamasdin, Canadian tennis player
- Adil Rashid, English cricketer
- Adil Isgandarov, Azerbaijani actor and film director (1912-1978)
- Adil Auassar, Dutch footballer
- Adil Nabi, British association football player (born 1994)
- Adil Barbari, Algerian bicycle racer
- Adil Aliyev, Azerbaijani politician (born 1969)
- Adil Khan Ziyadkhanov, Azerbaijani diplomat
- Adel Mahmoud, American doctor

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.