Adonis

What Adonis means

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

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #698 in 2015, #241 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Adonis?

US: Rising: up from #698 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2707 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2023, when 2,102 boys got the name (#175 that year). First in the US records in 1918.

How common

• About 1 in 1,168 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 3,162 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NV (2.39 per 1,000 boys), DC (2.37 per 1,000 boys), AK (2.2 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Adonis is #241 in the US and #448 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Adonis were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Adonnis32 US
• Adonys16 US
• Edonis5 US
• Odonis5 US
• Ahdonis5 US
• Addonis5 US
• Adonus5 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.

Nicknames

• Donny
• Donnie
• Donney
• Donni

Listed on Wiktionary under “pet forms”.

If you like Adonis

Boys

• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Niko#325Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1962, with 5 babies
• Theodore#4Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #99 in 2015, #4 in 2025
• Ambrose#735“immortal, divine”^*
• Leon#138“lion”^*
• Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”^*

For a sister

• Theodora#725“God s Gift”^*
• Cleo#577Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,743 in 2015, #577 in 2025
• Elena#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #106 in 2015, #42 in 2025. 5 letters, starting with a vowel
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Rhea#639Editor’s note Up from #994 in 2015 to #639 in 2025 in the US

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