Adalyn

#260 for girls in 2025, 1,192 births

Peak · girls
2015 · 2,456 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
31,014
since 1908

Adalyn over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Adalyn has never cracked the top 100 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #132, 2015girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#2601,192
2024#2191,414
2023#1961,541
2022#1801,658
2021#1431,921
2020#1411,934
2019#1601,800
2018#1441,938
2017#1342,215
2016#1412,192
2015#1322,456
2014#1532,120
2013#1791,781
2012#1981,609
2011#2151,466
2010#2571,269
2009#377861
2008#532578
2007#880318
2006#1,324177
2005#1,741113
2004#1,90998
2003#2,16780
2002#3,39440
2001#3,70335
2000#3,80833
1999#4,08828
1998#6,71914
1997#9,0179
1996#7,13012
1995#7,51411
1994#11,7786
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1917#3,3448
1916#3,9196
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First appearance
1908

The first year at least five girls were named Adalyn! It came in at #1,862, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1909–1913, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Adalyn is popular in 1918

No state had 5 or more girls named Adalyn in 1918, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adalyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 41 spots since 2024 (#219 → #260)
  • 119 spots since 2020 (#141 → #260)
  • 128 spots since 2015 (#132 → #260)
  • Biggest jump: 444 spots in 2007 (#1,324 → #880)
  • Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2025 (#219 → #260)
Rise & fade · girls
107 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1908
  • Peaked 2015 at #132 (2,456 births)
  • Births halved by 2025, 10 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 19 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
Share of babies · girls
1 in 727
  • Highest: 1 in 727 girls born in 2015 were named Adalyn (0.14%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,348 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 60.8% of all girls named Adalyn (18,846) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s6#1,862 (1908)#1,862
1910s44#2,434 (1914)#3,255
1920s28#3,400 (1921)#4,112
1930s5#4,286 (1934)#4,286
1940s0——
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1980s7#9,244 (1988)#9,244
1990s85#4,088 (1999)#8,485
2000s2,333#377 (2009)#1,984
2010s18,846#132 (2015)#171
2020s9,660#141 (2020)#190

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Adalyn in 1918

girls
#3,512
8 births · 1 in 144,704 girls

Top girls' names in 1918

  1. #1Mary67,365
  2. #2Helen36,148
  3. #3Dorothy32,030
  4. #4Margaret27,139
  5. #5Ruth25,535
  6. #6Mildred17,258
  7. #7Virginia16,421
  8. #8Frances16,132
  9. #9Elizabeth15,853
  10. #10Anna15,666
  11. #3,512Adalyn8
More about 1918

girls

1,157,631 girls got a published name in 1918; 1 in 144,704 of them was named Adalyn, which outranked 37.1% of the 5,585 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adalyn
  1. #3,244Zara9
  2. #3,244Zennie9
  3. #3,244Zilphia9
  4. #3,512Adalyn8
  5. #3,512Akiko8
  6. #3,512Alaine8
  7. #3,512Aldea8
  8. #3,869Aaron7
  9. #3,869Adrianna7
  10. #3,869Aileene7

Tied with 356 names at #3,512; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. ↑ 547Jesse#1,507 → #960
  2. ↑ 494Liberty#1,079 → #585
  3. ↑ 389Marilynn#1,337 → #948
  4. ↑ 312Margueritte#1,281 → #969
  5. ↑ 306Syble#807 → #501
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Valentine#964 → #1,411
  2. ↓ 428Ottie#952 → #1,380
  3. ↓ 354Delora#923 → #1,277
  4. ↓ 318Georgene#896 → #1,214
  5. ↓ 299Clifford#904 → #1,203

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1918 →