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Addeline vs Addilynn

American parents have registered 4,524 Addilynns since 1880, against 571 Addelines. Addilynn is still ahead, with 136 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Addeline against Addilynn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Addeline Addilynn

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 28 years in which either name was published, Addilynn for 21 years and Addeline for 7 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Addeline Addilynn
Total US births 5714,524
Most in one year 52492
Babies in 2025 31136
Estimated living today 5604,500
Median age today 98
Peak year 20162016
Best rank 3,139th girls610th girls
Rank in 2025 4,460th1,548th
First recorded 19212003
Girls / boys 571 / 04,524 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Addeline Addilynn
England and Wales 35

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: Addeline and Addilynn.