Adalai
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AD-ah-ly
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Adalai is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Adalai come from?
Uncertain; perhaps a variant of Adalee or the biblical Adlai
Is Adalai a girl's or a boy's name?
Adalai is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adalai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Adalai, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
2025 had fewer girls named Adalai than any year since 2006.
Half of all the girls named Adalai in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 104 girls in the US were given Adalai or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,644, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Adalai in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 8 | #11,830 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 7 | #13,827 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
Names like Adalai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Aaliyah, Azari, Alaya, Zaniyah, Amira, Alaiyah, Aziyah, Kaliyah, Hadassah, Zaliyah, Sariyah
Other spellings of Adalai
Names related to Adalai
Adalee, Adalie, Adalia, Adaly, Adali, Adaley, Adalaya, Adaleya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adalai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adalai, updated 20 October 2026.