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Adopted Names for Boys

There are 222 Adopted names for baby boys. Displayed on this page are Adopted names 1 to 20. Alexander was the most popular among these names in 2008 with a rank of #6 and a usage of 0.8566%. The name is primarily used in Dutch, English, German, Hungarian, and Slavic, and it was followed in popularity by the English, Greek, and Russian Andrew, the English, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adrian, the English, Irish, and Scottish Aidan, the Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian Adam, the Dutch, English, German, and Hebrew Abraham, the English, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish Abel, the Arabic and English Ali, the English, German, and Hebrew Ariel, the English Armani, the Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, and Scandinavian Alfred, and the English and Greek name, Adonis. The unusual Adopted names are Abner (English), Adlai (English and Hebrew), Alice (English), Alistair (English and Scottish), Alun (Welsh), Amerigo (Italian), Amos (English, German, and Hebrew), and Anatoli (Russian).

Adopted names are all-time favorites. Currently they are still very popular baby names for boys, though they were in more widespread use previously. The names rose in popularity from the 1900s up to the 1980s. At the height of their usage in 1984, 32.103% of baby boys were given Adopted names. There were 123 Adopted names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Adopted names have since experienced a decline in frequency. In 2008, 112 Adopted names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 20.821%. Within all Adopted names, the Czech, English, German, and Yiddish Michael was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #2 and a usage of 0.9437%.

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Abel Popularity Trend of Abel
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 360 360 breath, vapor; son ... the Reformation, it was adopted by the Puritans, who ...

Abner Popularity Trend of Abner
from 1900 to 2008. father of light, father ... name was adopted by the Puritans after the ...

Abraham Popularity Trend of Abraham
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 187 187 father of a multitude ... name Abraham was adopted by the 17th-century ...

Adam Popularity Trend of Adam
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 72 72 man; to make ... speakers adopted the name Adam during the Middle ...

Adlai Yahweh is just; my ornament ... name was adopted by English speakers in the 19th ...

Adonis Popularity Trend of Adonis
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 854 854 lord, ruler ... Ahmed Said (1930-) also adopted Adonis as a pen-name ...

Adrian Popularity Trend of Adrian
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 56 56 man from Hadria; dark ... latter, the name was adopted by Nicholas Breakspeare ...

Aidan Popularity Trend of Aidan
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 59 59 little fire ... of the name have been adopted by parents to imply ...

Alexander Popularity Trend of Alexander
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 6 6 defender of men ... name was even adopted in Hebrew after his benign ...

Alfred Popularity Trend of Alfred
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 787 787 inspired advice; old ... the conquest, it was adopted in different forms by ...

Ali Popularity Trend of Ali
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 398 398 high, lofty, sublime; ... Clay (1942-), who adopted the name Muhammed Ali ...

Alice Popularity Trend of Alice
from 1900 to 2008. of a noble kind ... Cooper (1948-), who adopted it from his shock rock ...

Alistair was adopted by the Lowland Scots by the 17th century, ...

Alun little rock; harmony, ... (1797-1840), who adopted Alun as a bardic name. ...

Amerigo Popularity Trend of Amerigo
from 1900 to 2008. work; rich, powerful, ... name is sometimes adopted by Italian Americans in ...

Amos Popularity Trend of Amos
from 1900 to 2008. borne by God; bearer ... name was adopted by the Puritans after the ...

Anatoli sunrise, east ... name was adopted by early Christians for the ...

Andrew Popularity Trend of Andrew
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 12 12 male, manly, brave, ... as Saint Andrew and adopted as the patron saint of ...

Ariel Popularity Trend of Ariel
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 570 570 lion of God ... the name was adopted by the Puritans after ...

Armani Popularity Trend of Armani
from 1900 to 2008.
2008 Rank: 583 583 castle, palace ... was recently adopted by English speakers in the USA, ...


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