Adnaan
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- ad-NAAN
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
Adnaan is a boys' name of Arabic origin, meaning “settler”. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies).
What does Adnaan mean?
Arabic: spelling of Adnan
“settler”
In Arab tradition Adnan is the ancestor of the northern Arabian tribes, including the Prophet Muhammad's tribe.
Meaning borrowed from Adnan. More on Wiktionary.
Is Adnaan a girl's or a boy's name?
Adnaan is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adnaan in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 83% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Adnaan, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2000, with 24 boys.
Half of all the boys named Adnaan in the UK since 1996 were born between 2000 and 2009. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier boys aren't counted.
In 2025, 72 boys in the UK were given Adnaan or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #544, up from #5,065 for this spelling alone.
- Adnan 69
- Adnaan 3
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Adnaan in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 5 | #3,772 |
| 2023 | 3 | #5,193 |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 3 | #4,989 |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 3 | #4,913 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 6 | #3,241 |
| 2015 | 1 | #6,220 |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,063 |
| 2013 | 3 | #4,884 |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 5 | #3,446 |
| 2010 | 10 | #2,141 |
| 2009 | 11 | #1,959 |
| 2008 | 16 | #1,490 |
| 2007 | 3 | #4,486 |
| 2006 | 9 | #1,995 |
| 2005 | 16 | #1,326 |
| 2004 | 18 | #1,140 |
| 2003 | 13 | #1,328 |
| 2002 | 20 | #951 |
| 2001 | 15 | #1,103 |
| 2000 | 24 | #785 |
| 1999 | 14 | #1,087 |
| 1998 | 16 | #980 |
| 1997 | 15 | #1,025 |
| 1996 | 13 | #1,083 |
Names like Adnaan
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hassan, Usman, Asad, Hamza, Azeem, Amaan, Saif, Aamir, Ahsan, Fahad, Samir, Ashraf
Other spellings of Adnaan
Names related to Adnaan
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adnaan: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adnaan, updated 20 October 2026.