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Adaly vs Adalynn

American parents have registered 34,210 Adalynns since 1880, against 983 Adalys. Adalynn is still ahead, with 1,683 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adaly Adalynn

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 32 years in which either name was published, Adalynn for 30 years and Adaly for 2 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adaly Adalynn
Total US births 98334,210
Most in one year 742,815
Babies in 2025 431,683
Estimated living today 98034,000
Median age today 97
Peak year 20222018
Best rank 2,445th girls108th girls
Rank in 2025 3,517th184th
First recorded 19931996
Girls / boys 983 / 034,210 / 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 Adalys alive today are over 9; half the Adalynns are over 7. 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: Adaly and Adalynn.