Adeline
Adeline is a girl's name that peaked in 2016, when it was the 63rd most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 59th. About 53,000 Adelines are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Adeline boys named Adeline
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 80,838
- Estimated living today
- 53,000
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 63rd
- Rank in 2025
- 59th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 80,812 / 26
How old the living Adelines are
born that year still alive today
Of the 80,838 babies given the name since 1880, about 53,000 are alive — 65 in every hundred. Roughly 44,000 of them are children and 2,700 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From Old French Adeline, a diminutive form of Adela and Adele brought to England by the Normans.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Adelines
- Adeline Gray (born 1991)American wrestler
- Adeline Rudolph (born 1995)Hong Kong-British actress
- Adeline Sarah Ames (1879–1976)American mycologist
- Adeline Baud-Mugnier (born 1992)French alpine skier
People named Adeline with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adeline is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adeline is most concentrated in North Dakota (4.2×), Minnesota (2.6×), South Dakota (2.4×), Wisconsin (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Adeline peaked:
Adeline elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Adeline +1 spelling | 54,580 | 27th |
| England and Wales girls | Adeline | 1,654 | 222nd |
| Belgium girls | Adeline | 1,073 | 74th |
| Ireland girls | Adeline | 174 | 259th |
| Switzerland girls | Adeline | 151 | 442nd |
| Scotland girls | Adeline | 90 | 304th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Adeline | 27 | 191st |
| Poland girls | Adeline | 10 birth registrations | 498th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adeline: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Adeline | 45 | 0.004% | 660th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Adeline | 105 | 0.024% | 158th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Adeline | 1 | 0.002% | 194th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Adeline is most concentrated in Fribourg, where 0.05% of children were given it – 32 of them.
Adeline: rank by region
In 2025, Adeline was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Adeline | 484 | 10 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Adeline appears in the lists for Province of Antwerp (326th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Adeline among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Adeline | 82 | 206 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Adeline against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.