Adalene vs Adalyn
American parents have registered 31,014 Adalyns since 1880, against 708 Adalenes. Adalyn is still ahead, with 1,192 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Adalene 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
Of the 65 years in which either name was published, Adalyn for 38 years and Adalene for 27 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.
Side by side
| Adalene | Adalyn | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 708 | 31,014 |
| Most in one year | 46 | 2,456 |
| Babies in 2025 | 11 | 1,192 |
| Estimated living today | 480 | 31,000 |
| Median age today | 10 | 8 |
| Peak year | 2015 | 2015 |
| Best rank | 3,429th girls | 132nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,860th | 260th |
| First recorded | 1887 | 1908 |
| Girls / boys | 708 / 0 | 31,014 / 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.
Which name is older
Half of the Adalenes alive today are over 10; half the Adalyns are over 8. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adalene and Adalyn.