Meaning not yet researched.
Adeline: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,864 in 2025. Its best rank was #58 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #58 in 2024; #59 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adeline in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#59 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #58.
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Adeline: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,864 girls in 2025. Peak: #58 in 2024 · most girls in one year: 4,120 (2016).
In 2025, 3,864 US girls were named Adeline, making it the 59th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1 place from #58 in 2024. That is 127 more than the 3,737 girls named Adeline in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #58, reached in 2024. The most girls given the name in a single year was 4,120, in 2016. For comparison, it was #135 in 2015 and #825 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adeline in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 54 babies with the name. In all, 80,838 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 23,394 babies named Adeline.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 33,632 US girls were named Adeline; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 4,120. In 2025 that was about 1 in 416 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adeline ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #29 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 48 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Adelina (16,762 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 Adelene, Adelin and Adalene are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ada, Addy, Delia, Dell and Lena.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adelene (1,258), Adelin (784), Adalene (708), Adelaine (652), Addeline (571), Adalin (482), Adeleine (445), Adylene (375), Addaline (279), Adyline (190), Adylin (153), Adelinne (90), and more.
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so every state is listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 13 | #29 | #58 |
| Vermont | 11 | #30 | #86 |
| North Dakota | 18 | #33 | #96 |
| Tennessee | 121 | #37 | #102 |
| South Dakota | 18 | #38 | #111 |
| Minnesota | 89 | #39 | #65 |
| Montana | 16 | #40 | #39 |
| Rhode Island | 16 | #40 | #137 |
| Idaho | 35 | #41 | #79 |
| Arkansas | 44 | #43 | #141 |
| Washington | 108 | #44 | #87 |
| Wisconsin | 81 | #44 | #72 |
| Colorado | 89 | #46 | #95 |
| Wyoming | 7 | #46 | — |
| Michigan | 123 | #47 | #146 |
| Kentucky | 67 | #47 | #150 |
| Georgia | 143 | #49 | #184 |
| Virginia | 111 | #49 | #118 |
| West Virginia | 24 | #50 | #226 |
| Oklahoma | 52 | #51 | #116 |
| North Carolina | 150 | #52 | #121 |
| Nebraska | 29 | #53 | #167 |
| Missouri | 80 | #53 | #116 |
| Delaware | 12 | #55 | #96 |
| New Hampshire | 18 | #57 | #96 |
| Arizona | 83 | #59 | #162 |
| Texas | 417 | #60 | #164 |
| Oregon | 45 | #61 | #95 |
| Florida | 238 | #63 | #186 |
| Indiana | 86 | #64 | #121 |
| Kansas | 39 | #65 | #171 |
| California | 416 | #65 | #131 |
| Massachusetts | 79 | #65 | #101 |
| South Carolina | 56 | #65 | #208 |
| Maryland | 55 | #65 | #186 |
| Alabama | 56 | #65 | #159 |
| Ohio | 130 | #66 | #119 |
| Louisiana | 50 | #68 | #120 |
| Nevada | 29 | #69 | #187 |
| New Mexico | 17 | #69 | #168 |
| Illinois | 119 | #70 | #147 |
| Maine | 13 | #73 | #53 |
| Iowa | 37 | #75 | #105 |
| Connecticut | 32 | #79 | #111 |
| Utah | 47 | #89 | #144 |
| Hawaii | 8 | #93 | #90 |
| Pennsylvania | 99 | #97 | #150 |
| New York | 145 | #100 | #183 |
| District of Columbia | 7 | #109 | #130 |
| New Jersey | 66 | #113 | #151 |
| Mississippi | 20 | #114 | #151 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3,864 | #59 | — | — |
| 2024 | 3,737 | #58 | — | — |
| 2023 | 3,091 | #71 | — | — |
| 2022 | 2,825 | #92 | — | — |
| 2021 | 2,770 | #94 | — | — |
| 2020 | 2,719 | #99 | — | — |
| 2019 | 3,078 | #91 | — | — |
| 2018 | 3,491 | #78 | — | — |
| 2017 | 3,937 | #64 | — | — |
| 2016 | 4,120 | #63 | 6 | #10,776 |
| 2015 | 2,413 | #135 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,531 | #220 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,377 | #233 | 5 | #12,165 |
| 2012 | 1,343 | #239 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,103 | #288 | — | — |
| 2010 | 990 | #323 | — | — |
| 2009 | 922 | #352 | — | — |
| 2008 | 910 | #363 | — | — |
| 2007 | 840 | #389 | — | — |
| 2006 | 676 | #467 | — | — |
| 2005 | 521 | #552 | — | — |
| 2004 | 480 | #588 | — | — |
| 2003 | 403 | #658 | — | — |
| 2002 | 364 | #690 | — | — |
| 2001 | 321 | #745 | — | — |
| 2000 | 282 | #805 | — | — |
| 1999 | 228 | #925 | — | — |
| 1998 | 181 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1997 | 162 | #1,148 | — | — |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,337 | — | — |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1994 | 99 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,947 | — | — |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,834 | — | — |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,052 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,470 | — | — |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,360 | — | — |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,985 | — | — |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,673 | — | — |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,269 | — | — |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,606 | — | — |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,095 | — | — |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,309 | — | — |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,999 | — | — |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,848 | — | — |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,548 | — | — |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,372 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,359 | — | — |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1960 | 73 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,299 | — | — |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,130 | — | — |
| 1954 | 92 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1952 | 117 | #849 | — | — |
| 1951 | 104 | #882 | — | — |
| 1950 | 112 | #825 | — | — |
| 1949 | 128 | #763 | — | — |
| 1948 | 134 | #730 | — | — |
| 1947 | 150 | #687 | — | — |
| 1946 | 163 | #621 | — | — |
| 1945 | 136 | #623 | — | — |
| 1944 | 171 | #556 | — | — |
| 1943 | 174 | #573 | — | — |
| 1942 | 172 | #563 | — | — |
| 1941 | 189 | #505 | — | — |
| 1940 | 202 | #474 | — | — |
| 1939 | 214 | #455 | — | — |
| 1938 | 238 | #434 | — | — |
| 1937 | 245 | #413 | — | — |
| 1936 | 264 | #391 | — | — |
| 1935 | 283 | #376 | — | — |
| 1934 | 326 | #348 | — | — |
| 1933 | 371 | #325 | — | — |
| 1932 | 464 | #290 | — | — |
| 1931 | 490 | #281 | — | — |
| 1930 | 555 | #268 | — | — |
| 1929 | 614 | #256 | — | — |
| 1928 | 721 | #232 | 5 | #4,154 |
| 1927 | 806 | #223 | — | — |
| 1926 | 944 | #205 | — | — |
| 1925 | 1,022 | #199 | — | — |
| 1924 | 1,142 | #191 | — | — |
| 1923 | 1,077 | #195 | — | — |
| 1922 | 1,085 | #193 | 5 | #4,310 |
| 1921 | 1,246 | #177 | 5 | #4,327 |
| 1920 | 1,260 | #176 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,261 | #172 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,301 | #169 | — | — |
| 1917 | 1,234 | #163 | — | — |
| 1916 | 1,168 | #166 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,097 | #167 | — | — |
| 1914 | 878 | #166 | — | — |
| 1913 | 668 | #173 | — | — |
| 1912 | 570 | #172 | — | — |
| 1911 | 413 | #176 | — | — |
| 1910 | 395 | #172 | — | — |
| 1909 | 345 | #173 | — | — |
| 1908 | 346 | #172 | — | — |
| 1907 | 315 | #177 | — | — |
| 1906 | 264 | #188 | — | — |
| 1905 | 236 | #199 | — | — |
| 1904 | 259 | #185 | — | — |
| 1903 | 212 | #200 | — | — |
| 1902 | 240 | #188 | — | — |
| 1901 | 192 | #208 | — | — |
| 1900 | 237 | #202 | — | — |
| 1899 | 200 | #196 | — | — |
| 1898 | 213 | #201 | — | — |
| 1897 | 172 | #211 | — | — |
| 1896 | 187 | #203 | — | — |
| 1895 | 180 | #202 | — | — |
| 1894 | 174 | #201 | — | — |
| 1893 | 141 | #217 | — | — |
| 1892 | 148 | #209 | — | — |
| 1891 | 132 | #202 | — | — |
| 1890 | 150 | #195 | — | — |
| 1889 | 154 | #184 | — | — |
| 1888 | 128 | #197 | — | — |
| 1887 | 103 | #200 | — | — |
| 1886 | 85 | #214 | — | — |
| 1885 | 86 | #208 | — | — |
| 1884 | 112 | #166 | — | — |
| 1883 | 82 | #184 | — | — |
| 1882 | 70 | #197 | — | — |
| 1881 | 58 | #196 | — | — |
| 1880 | 54 | #208 | — | — |
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).