Adeline

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Adeline is ranked 58th among girls in 2024 (3,723 births). Its best rank was 58th, in 2024.

Rank in 2024: #58up 13 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3,7230.23% of girls
Peak year: 20164,119 births
Best rank: #58in 2024
Since 1880: 76,925people given the name

Babies named Adeline, by year of birthgirls

The story in the numbers

76,925 girls have been named Adeline in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 4,119 births — 0.23% of all girls recorded that year.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 30%. It has spent 99 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	girls named Adeline
1880s	932
1890s	1,697
1900s	2,646
1910s	8,985
1920s	9,917
1930s	3,450
1940s	1,618
1950s	905
1960s	532
1970s	348
1980s	493
1990s	1,180
2000s	5,719
2010s	23,378
2020s	15,125

In 2016, its biggest year

Adeline was the 63rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.

Names that rose and fell with Adeline

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Adelyne1,167 ever

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.