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Adalia vs Adalyn

American parents have registered 31,014 Adalyns since 1880, against 2,499 Adalias. Adalyn is still ahead, with 1,192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adalia 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 77 years in which either name was published, Adalia for 39 years and Adalyn for 38 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Adalia Adalyn
Total US births 2,49931,014
Most in one year 1332,456
Babies in 2025 1181,192
Estimated living today 2,40031,000
Median age today 118
Peak year 20242015
Best rank 1,579th girls132nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,721st260th
First recorded 18951908
Girls / boys 2,499 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Adalias alive today are over 11; half the Adalyns are over 8. That is 3 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Adalia Adalyn
England and Wales 85488
France 1010

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: Adalia and Adalyn.