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Adelina vs Adelyne

American parents have registered 16,762 Adelinas since 1880, against 1,232 Adelynes. Adelina is still ahead, with 1,007 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adelina against Adelyne, 1880 to 2025 0 300 600 900 1.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adelina Adelyne

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

Adelina has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1884 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1911, when Adelina had 26 and Adelyne had 7.

Side by side

  Adelina Adelyne
Total US births 16,7621,232
Most in one year 1,00793
Babies in 2025 1,00764
Estimated living today 14,0001,100
Median age today 98
Peak year 20252018
Best rank 304th girls2,071st girls
Rank in 2025 304th2,691st
First recorded 18841911
Girls / boys 16,762 / 01,232 / 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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Adelina Adelyne
France 2,100275
England and Wales 7794

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: Adelina and Adelyne.