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Adaleigh vs Adalyn

American parents have registered 31,014 Adalyns since 1880, against 1,792 Adaleighs. Adalyn is still ahead, with 1,192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adaleigh against Adalyn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adaleigh Adalyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Adalyn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1908 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2006, when Adaleigh had 16 and Adalyn had 177.

Side by side

  Adaleigh Adalyn
Total US births 1,79231,014
Most in one year 1422,456
Babies in 2025 791,192
Estimated living today 1,80031,000
Median age today 88
Peak year 20202015
Best rank 1,503rd girls132nd girls
Rank in 2025 2,298th260th
First recorded 20031908
Girls / boys 1,792 / 031,014 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Adaleigh Adalyn
England and Wales 14488

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adaleigh and Adalyn.