Adley

A unisex name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 521 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
521
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#805
down from #668
UK popularity
#1359
20 babies

How Adley has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#440#670#899201520202025#805

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#831
2016#619
2017#603
2018#624
2019#670
2020#539
2021#508
2022#649
2023#765
2024#668
2025#805

Adley by the numbers

In 2025, 20 babies in England and Wales were named Adley. In the US, 521 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its best year in America so far is the most recent one on record, which means it was still climbing when the records end.

What we can tell you about Adley

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Adley. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Arley84 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Alley19 in the US (2017)
  • Ashleyash tree meadow2,549 in the US (2017)
  • Atleeat the meadow or clearing; a modern respelling of Attlee57 in the US (2017)
  • Adlaimy ornament; my witness21 in the US (2017)
  • Ackleyoak wood or clearing5 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Adley

Names that are said the same way as Adley, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Adleighnoble; a modern respelling of Adela124 in the US (2017)
  • Adleenoble; a modern respelling of Adele89 in the US (2017)
  • Addley38 in the US (2017)
  • Addlee10 in the US (2017)
  • Addleigh8 in the US (2017)
  • Adlei8 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Adley

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