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Adalyn vs Adamary

American parents have registered 31,014 Adalyns since 1880, against 674 Adamarys. Adalyn is still ahead, with 1,192 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adalyn Adamary

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 46 years in which either name was published, Adalyn for 43 years and Adamary for 3 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Adalyn Adamary
Total US births 31,014674
Most in one year 2,45662
Babies in 2025 1,192under 5
Estimated living today 31,000670
Median age today 819
Peak year 20152002
Best rank 132nd girls2,527th girls
Rank in 2025 260thunranked
First recorded 19081998
Girls / boys 31,014 / 0674 / 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 Adamarys alive today are over 19; half the Adalyns are over 8. That is 11 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: Adalyn and Adamary.