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Adaly vs Adalyn

American parents have registered 31,014 Adalyns since 1880, against 983 Adalys. Adalyn is still ahead, with 1,192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adaly 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 47 years in which either name was published, Adalyn for 46 years and Adaly for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Adaly Adalyn
Total US births 98331,014
Most in one year 742,456
Babies in 2025 431,192
Estimated living today 98031,000
Median age today 98
Peak year 20222015
Best rank 2,445th girls132nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th260th
First recorded 19931908
Girls / boys 983 / 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.

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