Adoniah
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- uh-DOH-nee-uh
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Adoniah is a name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
What does Adoniah mean?
Greek: spelling of Adonia; from the Adonia, the Greek festival of Adonis, whose name comes from Semitic adon 'lord'
The Adonia was an ancient Greek festival at which women mourned the death of Adonis.
Meaning borrowed from Adonia.
Is Adoniah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Adoniah has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US.
How popular is Adoniah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Adoniah, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2023, with 9 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Adoniah in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Adoniah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 6 | #14,326 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,063 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
Names like Adoniah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ophelia, Lydia, Aurelia, Amelia, Azariah, Helena, Athaliah, Analeia, Cora, Ada, Lena, Maggie
Names related to Adoniah
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe
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, “Adoniah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adoniah, updated 20 October 2026.