Adelene
Adelene is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 14 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 140.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 191937 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1889
- 1,243people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,243 girls have been named Adelene in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1919, with 37 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 23%.
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adelene | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 7 | |
| 1890s | 16 | |
| 1900s | 47 | |
| 1910s | 183 | |
| 1920s | 288 | |
| 1930s | 140 | |
| 1940s | 48 | |
| 1950s | 51 | |
| 1970s | 6 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 1990s | 63 | |
| 2000s | 100 | |
| 2010s | 198 | |
| 2020s | 91 |
In 1919, its biggest year
Adelene was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1919 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1919.
Names that rose and fell with Adelene
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Evelynpeak 1921
- Elenorepeak 1924
- Eleanorpeak 1920
- Clarabellepeak 1919
- Clementinapeak 1925
- Rubypeak 1924
- Genevievepeak 1918
- Elinorpeak 1920
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.