Meaning not yet researched.
Adelyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 851 in 2025. Its best rank was #194 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #194 in 2016; #355 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adelyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#355 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #194.
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Adelyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 851 girls in 2025. Peak: #194 in 2016 · most girls in one year: 1,680 (2015).
In 2025, 851 US girls were named Adelyn, making it the 355th most common girls’ name of the year, down 41 places from #314 in 2024. That is 127 fewer than the 978 girls named Adelyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #194, reached in 2016. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,680, in 2015. For comparison, it was #196 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adelyn in 80 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 23,618 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 13,979 babies named Adelyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 12,284 US girls were named Adelyn; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,672. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,889 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adelyn ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #213 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adeline (80,838 babies since 1880), Adalynn (34,210 babies since 1880), Adalyn (31,014 babies since 1880) and Adelynn (15,023 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adelean and Adeleen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adelean (5), Adeleen (5).
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 Adelyn 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 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 15 | #213 | #114 |
| Nevada | 11 | #235 | #254 |
| Idaho | 9 | #244 | #118 |
| Minnesota | 22 | #250 | #130 |
| North Carolina | 42 | #259 | #162 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #271 | #269 |
| Colorado | 22 | #277 | #151 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #282 | #129 |
| Washington | 25 | #286 | #189 |
| Texas | 120 | #288 | #188 |
| New Mexico | 5 | #297 | #185 |
| Indiana | 23 | #305 | #165 |
| Arizona | 23 | #306 | #189 |
| Illinois | 34 | #312 | #195 |
| Michigan | 28 | #316 | #190 |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #344 | #167 |
| California | 91 | #359 | #239 |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #360 | #195 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #375 | #371 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #376 | #124 |
| Virginia | 21 | #376 | #177 |
| Oregon | 9 | #396 | #183 |
| Missouri | 14 | #418 | #126 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #422 | #252 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #440 | #190 |
| Ohio | 25 | #444 | #184 |
| Florida | 41 | #456 | #267 |
| Louisiana | 9 | #477 | #195 |
| Alabama | 10 | #482 | #149 |
| Utah | 8 | #490 | #207 |
| Iowa | 6 | #492 | #207 |
| Georgia | 22 | #509 | #236 |
| New York | 31 | #533 | #267 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #541 | #284 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #619 | #117 |
| Maryland | 7 | #653 | #212 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 851 | #355 | — | — |
| 2024 | 978 | #314 | — | — |
| 2023 | 974 | #320 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,102 | #287 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,248 | #246 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,261 | #238 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,295 | #247 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,384 | #227 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,519 | #204 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,672 | #194 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,680 | #196 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,674 | #198 | 6 | #10,742 |
| 2013 | 1,506 | #212 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,351 | #236 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,057 | #299 | — | — |
| 2010 | 835 | #380 | — | — |
| 2009 | 778 | #408 | — | — |
| 2008 | 527 | #589 | — | — |
| 2007 | 335 | #847 | — | — |
| 2006 | 245 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2005 | 176 | #1,273 | — | — |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,526 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,143 | — | — |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,903 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,970 | — | — |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,574 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,872 | — | — |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,070 | — | — |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,518 | — | — |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,252 | — | — |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,054 | — | — |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,497 | — | — |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,695 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,043 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,807 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,784 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,754 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,324 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,429 | — | — |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,832 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,651 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,418 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,057 | — | — |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,739 | — | — |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,209 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,431 | — | — |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,439 | — | — |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,274 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,552 | — | — |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,498 | — | — |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,053 | — | — |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,475 | — | — |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,974 | — | — |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,588 | — | — |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,957 | — | — |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,813 | — | — |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,805 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,847 | — | — |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,674 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,896 | — | — |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,884 | — | — |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,146 | — | — |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,657 | — | — |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,822 | — | — |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,596 | — | — |
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).