# Adnan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adnan/  
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 | “settler” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,996 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,996 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,627, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic عَدْنَان (ʕadnān, “settler”).

## 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 | 72 | 1,927 |
| 2012 | 66 | 2,068 |
| 2013 | 94 | 1,625 |
| 2014 | 76 | 1,907 |
| 2015 | 86 | 1,767 |
| 2016 | 66 | 2,110 |
| 2017 | 80 | 1,844 |
| 2018 | 100 | 1,625 |
| 2019 | 80 | 1,869 |
| 2020 | 75 | 1,937 |
| 2021 | 101 | 1,645 |
| 2022 | 111 | 1,590 |
| 2023 | 118 | 1,501 |
| 2024 | 117 | 1,517 |
| 2025 | 112 | 1,539 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 48 | 671 |
| 2012 | 55 | 634 |
| 2013 | 45 | 720 |
| 2014 | 43 | 744 |
| 2015 | 52 | 656 |
| 2016 | 60 | 597 |
| 2017 | 55 | 644 |
| 2018 | 33 | 897 |
| 2019 | 39 | 798 |
| 2020 | 30 | 944 |
| 2021 | 37 | 841 |
| 2022 | 44 | 746 |
| 2023 | 51 | 679 |
| 2024 | 63 | 602 |
| 2025 | 66 | 585 |

## People named Adnan

- Adnan Januzaj, Belgian association football player (born 1995)
- Adnan Al Talyani, Emirati association football player
- Adnan Terzić, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina from 2002 to 2007
- Adnan Zahirović, Bosnian footballer
- Adnan Khairallah, Ex Iraqi minister; Saddam Hussein's brother-in-law (1941–1989)
- Adnan Ahmed, association footballer
- Adnan Mravac, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer
- Adnan Kovačević, association football player
- Adnan Ibrahim, Austrian imam and television preacher
- Adnan Mohammed, Danish association football player
- Adnan Čustović, Bosnia and Herzegovina footballer and manager
- Adnan Barakat, Dutch footballer

## 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.