Adean vs Adele
American parents have registered 42,373 Adeles since 1880, against 116 Adeans. Adele is still ahead, with 362 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Adean Adele
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
Adele has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 2008, when Adean had 7 and Adele had 156.
Side by side
| Adean | Adele | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 116 | 42,373 |
| Most in one year | 11 | 1,036 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 362 |
| Estimated living today | 40 | 18,000 |
| Median age today | 18 | 46 |
| Peak year | 1921 | 1918 |
| Best rank | 2,941st girls | 191st girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 751st |
| First recorded | 1921 | 1880 |
| Girls / boys | 93 / 23 | 42,362 / 11 |
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 Adeles alive today are over 46; half the Adeans are over 18. That is 28 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Adean and Adele.