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Adia vs Adilene

American parents have registered 6,597 Adilenes since 1880, against 2,968 Adias. Adilene is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adia against Adilene, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adia Adilene

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 56 years in which either name was published, Adilene for 38 years and Adia for 18 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Adia Adilene
Total US births 2,9686,597
Most in one year 156259
Babies in 2025 23125
Estimated living today 2,9006,500
Median age today 2218
Peak year 20032014
Best rank 1,318th girls1,008th girls
Rank in 2025 5,410th1,652nd
First recorded 19111987
Girls / boys 2,968 / 06,590 / 7

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 Adias alive today are over 22; half the Adilenes are over 18. That is 4 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: Adia and Adilene.