Adelene

#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births

Peak · girls
1889 · 7 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,258
since 1889

Adelene over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Adelene has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201940peak #1,025, 1889girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#7,13315
2024#7,59414
2023#7,24715
2022#4,90727
2021#5,95520
2020#7,21215
2019#9,11211
2018#7,40915
2017#5,04526
2016#4,73429
2015#4,40332
2014#6,71318
2013#5,83422
2012#9,10912
2011#6,33520
2010#8,70113
2009#9,37912
2008#10,08411
2007#7,39417
2006#11,4179
2005#9,45211
2004#12,7617
2003#9,67110
2002#8,83711
2001#8,19612
2000—
1999#12,6886
1998#11,1387
1997#9,8028
1996#9,5818
1995#8,7669
1994#13,4305
1993#7,49811
1992—
1991#8,5889
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1981#10,4115
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1979#9,0106
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1959#6,2455
1958#6,1035
1957—
1956#5,9525
1955#4,7407
1954—
1953#5,6735
1952#3,55210
1951#4,3857
1950#4,3157
1949#4,2357
1948#3,8838
1947#4,0078
1946—
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1944#4,0546
1943—
1942#4,6225
1941#3,9546
1940#3,2088
1939#2,12515
1938#2,22514
1937#2,9409
1936#3,1038
1935#2,00616
1934#2,28913
1933#2,54011
1932#1,81719
1931#2,02416
1930#1,87519
1929#1,59824
1928#1,63725
1927#1,52329
1926#1,48330
1925#1,44332
1924#1,44033
1923#1,67225
1922#1,57528
1921#1,47631
1920#1,43931
1919#1,24237
1918#1,64524
1917#1,99617
1916#1,33230
1915#2,14314
1914#1,74015
1913#1,22921
1912#1,9819
1911#1,6569
1910#1,9357
1909#1,9576
1908#1,6767
1907#1,28910
1906#1,4168
1905#1,5387
1904#1,2519
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1895#1,4266
1894#1,4855
1893#1,4375
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1889#1,0257
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First appearance
1889

The first year at least five girls were named Adelene! It came in at #1,025, and was given to 7 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1894, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Adelene is popular in 1940

No state had 5 or more girls named Adelene in 1940, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adelene
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 461 spots since 2024 (#7,594 → #7,133)
  • 79 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #7,133)
  • 2,730 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #7,133)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1889
  • Peaked 1889 at #1,025 (7 births)
  • Births halved by 1890, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 25,481
  • Highest: 1 in 25,481 girls born in 1889 were named Adelene (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 22.9% of all girls named Adelene (288) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s7#1,025 (1889)#1,025
1890s16#1,426 (1895)#1,449
1900s47#1,251 (1904)#1,521
1910s183#1,229 (1913)#1,690
1920s288#1,439 (1920)#1,529
1930s140#1,817 (1932)#2,294
1940s48#3,208 (1940)#3,995
1950s51#3,552 (1952)#5,121
1960s0——
1970s6#9,010 (1979)#9,010
1980s5#10,411 (1981)#10,411
1990s63#7,498 (1993)#10,186
2000s100#7,394 (2007)#9,688
2010s198#4,403 (2015)#6,740
2020s106#4,907 (2022)#6,675

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.

Adelene in 1940

girls
#3,208
8 births · 1 in 142,941 girls

Top girls' names in 1940

  1. #1Mary56,216
  2. #2Barbara36,736
  3. #3Patricia32,665
  4. #4Judith22,385
  5. #5Betty22,077
  6. #6Carol21,759
  7. #7Nancy19,737
  8. #8Linda18,370
  9. #9Shirley17,881
  10. #10Sandra16,153
  11. #3,208Adelene8
More about 1940

girls

1,143,528 girls got a published name in 1940; 1 in 142,941 of them was named Adelene, which outranked 36.2% of the 5,028 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adelene
  1. #2,963Wylma9
  2. #2,963Yuvonne9
  3. #2,963Zelpha9
  4. #3,208Adelene8
  5. #3,208Adelyn8
  6. #3,208Adrianna8
  7. #3,208Aimee8
  8. #3,503Adean7
  9. #3,503Agapita7
  10. #3,503Aleatha7

Tied with 294 names at #3,208; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1939
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,494Scarlett#3,429 → #935
  2. ↑ 1,465Lonna#2,206 → #741
  3. ↑ 834Pam#1,797 → #963
  4. ↑ 659Jody#1,638 → #979
  5. ↑ 633Laraine#1,474 → #841
Fallers
  1. ↓ 481Fredia#996 → #1,477
  2. ↓ 430Eleanora#974 → #1,404
  3. ↓ 375Danielle#811 → #1,186
  4. ↓ 342Eloisa#930 → #1,272
  5. ↓ 298Coral#996 → #1,294

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

See the top 100 for 1940 →