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Adi vs Adilene

American parents have registered 6,597 Adilenes since 1880, against 1,724 Adis. Adilene is still ahead, with 125 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Adi 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 51 years in which either name was published, Adilene for 39 years and Adi for 12 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Adi Adilene
Total US births 1,7246,597
Most in one year 66259
Babies in 2025 41125
Estimated living today 1,7006,500
Median age today 1618
Peak year 20162014
Best rank 3,923rd girls1,008th girls
Rank in 2025 6,546th1,652nd
First recorded 19711987
Girls / boys 945 / 7796,590 / 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 Adilenes alive today are over 18; half the Adis are over 16. That is 2 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: Adi and Adilene.