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Adelyn vs Adelyne

American parents have registered 23,618 Adelyns since 1880, against 1,232 Adelynes. Adelyn is still ahead, with 851 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adelyn against Adelyne, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adelyn 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

Of the 80 years in which either name was published, Adelyn for 78 years and Adelyne for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Adelyn Adelyne
Total US births 23,6181,232
Most in one year 1,68093
Babies in 2025 85164
Estimated living today 23,0001,100
Median age today 98
Peak year 20152018
Best rank 196th girls2,071st girls
Rank in 2025 355th2,691st
First recorded 18991911
Girls / boys 23,612 / 61,232 / 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 Adelyn Adelyne
England and Wales 3054

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: Adelyn and Adelyne.