Adil
An Arabic and Turkish name meaning "just" or "fair". Fewer than 300 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one, and it stays exclusively male.
Adil Pronunciation
Adil is pronounced AH-deel (/ˈadil/).
What Adil means
Where Adil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Adil comes from the Arabic ʿādil, meaning just or fair. It grows from the triliteral root ʿ-d-l, tied to notions of balance and equity. In Islamic tradition, al-ʿAdl, the Just, is counted among the ninety-nine names of God, so a bearer shares a word with one of them.
Adil traveled far beyond Arabic. Turkish took it in as both a given name and an ordinary adjective, where adil still means fair or equitable in everyday speech. That double life, at once a person and a plain word, keeps the name close to its meaning.
Poland has no imieniny for it. The calendar of name-days grew from Christian saints, and Adil sits outside that list. On a school register it reads short and clean, four letters with no Polish spelling to adjust. The meaning holds under all of this: just, fair, sprawiedliwy.
How many people are named Adil
1 in 83711 men in Poland is named Adil. 255 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1923 among male names.
Adil's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Adil as a middle name
Adil is a first name for 255 men in Poland and a middle name for another 29, a 90/10 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1549th, between Zoltán (30) and András (29).
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#1547 Woo30
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#1548 Zoltán30
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#1549 Adil29
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#1550 András29
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#1551 Angus29