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Adleigh vs Adline

American parents have registered 1,410 Adleighs since 1880, against 1,177 Adlines. Adleigh is still ahead, with 52 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adleigh against Adline, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adleigh Adline

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 103 years in which either name was published, Adline for 80 years and Adleigh for 23 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adleigh Adline
Total US births 1,4101,177
Most in one year 12537
Babies in 2025 52under 5
Estimated living today 1,400180
Median age today 976
Peak year 20171919
Best rank 1,703rd girls1,242nd girls
Rank in 2025 3,100thunranked
First recorded 20031880
Girls / boys 1,410 / 01,177 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Adlines alive today are over 76; half the Adleighs are over 9. That is 67 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: Adleigh and Adline.