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Adalind vs Adalynn

American parents have registered 34,210 Adalynns since 1880, against 810 Adalinds. Adalynn is still ahead, with 1,683 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Adalind against Adalynn, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Adalind Adalynn

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

Adalynn has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1996 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2016, when Adalind had 123 and Adalynn had 2,598.

Side by side

  Adalind Adalynn
Total US births 81034,210
Most in one year 1232,815
Babies in 2025 321,683
Estimated living today 81034,000
Median age today 87
Peak year 20162018
Best rank 1,719th girls108th girls
Rank in 2025 4,352nd184th
First recorded 20131996
Girls / boys 810 / 034,210 / 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 Adalind Adalynn
England and Wales 65203
France 2030

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: Adalind and Adalynn.