Meaning not yet researched.
Adalyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,192 in 2025. Its best rank was #132 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #132 in 2015; #260 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adalyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#260 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #132.
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Adalyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,192 girls in 2025. Peak: #132 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 2,456 (2015).
In 2025, 1,192 US girls were named Adalyn, making it the 260th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #219 in 2024. That is 222 fewer than the 1,414 girls named Adalyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #132, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,456. For comparison, it was #132 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adalyn in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1908 with 6 babies. In all, 31,014 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 18,846 babies named Adalyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 17,805 US girls were named Adalyn; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 2,215. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,348 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adalyn ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #89 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Adalynn (34,210 babies since 1880), Adelyn (23,618 babies since 1880), Adaline (18,766 babies since 1880) and Adelynn (15,023 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adellyn, Adilen and Aidelyn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Adellyn (94), Adilen (91), Aidelyn (80), Addylyn (52), Adylen (40), Adylan (28), Addalin (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Adalyn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 24 | #89 | #78 |
| West Virginia | 12 | #125 | #39 |
| Alabama | 35 | #125 | #74 |
| Kentucky | 30 | #147 | #63 |
| Wisconsin | 32 | #164 | #101 |
| Nevada | 15 | #166 | #117 |
| Minnesota | 31 | #171 | #82 |
| Idaho | 12 | #176 | #106 |
| Maine | 6 | #176 | #155 |
| North Carolina | 58 | #180 | #88 |
| Iowa | 16 | #199 | #83 |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | #200 | #97 |
| Indiana | 34 | #201 | #84 |
| Missouri | 29 | #208 | #108 |
| Utah | 22 | #212 | #108 |
| Kansas | 13 | #233 | #99 |
| South Dakota | 5 | #234 | #56 |
| Ohio | 47 | #235 | #88 |
| New Hampshire | 5 | #236 | #102 |
| Connecticut | 14 | #240 | — |
| Nebraska | 9 | #244 | #84 |
| Massachusetts | 23 | #245 | #196 |
| Arkansas | 12 | #250 | #85 |
| Tennessee | 30 | #254 | #79 |
| California | 130 | #257 | #198 |
| Texas | 129 | #267 | #135 |
| Virginia | 30 | #272 | #110 |
| Oregon | 13 | #273 | #154 |
| Arizona | 25 | #282 | #151 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #296 | #212 |
| Washington | 23 | #314 | #134 |
| Georgia | 33 | #323 | #133 |
| Illinois | 32 | #331 | #157 |
| Florida | 53 | #342 | #178 |
| Michigan | 25 | #351 | #114 |
| Maryland | 15 | #354 | #150 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #374 | #192 |
| Colorado | 15 | #389 | #124 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #394 | #115 |
| South Carolina | 12 | #403 | #78 |
| New York | 30 | #548 | #340 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #667 | #243 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,192 | #260 | — | — |
| 2024 | 1,414 | #219 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,541 | #196 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,658 | #180 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,921 | #143 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,934 | #141 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,800 | #160 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,938 | #144 | — | — |
| 2017 | 2,215 | #134 | — | — |
| 2016 | 2,192 | #141 | — | — |
| 2015 | 2,456 | #132 | — | — |
| 2014 | 2,120 | #153 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,781 | #179 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,609 | #198 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,466 | #215 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,269 | #257 | — | — |
| 2009 | 861 | #377 | — | — |
| 2008 | 578 | #532 | — | — |
| 2007 | 318 | #880 | — | — |
| 2006 | 177 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 2005 | 113 | #1,741 | — | — |
| 2004 | 98 | #1,909 | — | — |
| 2003 | 80 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2002 | 40 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,703 | — | — |
| 2000 | 33 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 1999 | 28 | #4,090 | — | — |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,724 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,025 | — | — |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,133 | — | — |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,520 | — | — |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,787 | — | — |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,156 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,249 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,286 | — | — |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,664 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,013 | — | — |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,400 | — | — |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,345 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,187 | — | — |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,862 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).