Adley

What Adley means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Adley yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #805 vs #2,006 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Adley?

US: Steady: #832 in 2015, #805 now. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2021, when 611 girls got the name (#509 that year). First in the US records in 1921.

How common

• About 1 in 4,741 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 18,092 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (1.38 per 1,000 girls), KS (0.85 per 1,000 girls), LA (0.79 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Adley is #805 in the US and #2006 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 86.9% of US babies named Adley were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Adele362 US · 51 E&W
• Atley76 US
• Adel32 US · 9 E&W
• Atlee39 US
• Adlee37 US
• Addley12 US
• Adlai7 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Adley

Girls

• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Harlow#309Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Harlow in 2025 were girls
• Elliott#599“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Kinsley#93“Royal (a man's name) + s + woodland clearing”^*
• Brinley#608Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #608 vs #5,927 in 2025
• Emersyn#138Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #138 vs #3,705 in 2025

For a brother

• Beckham#168“homestead”^*
• Lennon#807“descendant of Lover (Leannán)”^*
• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Nolan#65“descendant of Nuallán”^*
• Hudson#17Editor’s note Up from #65 in 2015 to #17 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 200 US boys in the 2025 records
• Archer#98Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #289 in 2015, #98 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Adley’s. Rank is US 2025.