Adelie
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 51 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 688since 2003
Adelie over time
Rank among girls' names. Adelie has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #5,126 | 25 |
| 2022 | #3,963 | 37 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 |
| 2020 | #5,314 | 23 |
| 2019 | #3,788 | 39 |
| 2018 | #4,458 | 31 |
| 2017 | #4,811 | 28 |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 |
| 2014 | #3,184 | 51 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 |
| 2012 | #3,583 | 44 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,608 | 31 |
| 2009 | #4,107 | 37 |
| 2008 | #5,142 | 28 |
| 2007 | #7,394 | 17 |
| 2006 | #6,840 | 18 |
| 2005 | #7,500 | 15 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Adelie! It came in at #10,425, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2003–2004, when fewer than 12 girls a year got the name.
Where Adelie is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- North Carolina#1,412 · 1 in 9,015
- California#2,380 · 1 in 21,816
- Texas#3,205 · 1 in 31,096
Best ever in a state: #1,158 in Virginia, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| North Carolina | #1,412 | 5 | 1 in 9,015 |
| California | #2,380 | 8 | 1 in 21,816 |
| Texas | #3,205 | 5 | 1 in 31,096 |
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See more about Adelie
- 920 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #5,722)
- 408 spots since 2020 (#5,314 → #5,722)
- 1,955 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #5,722)
- Debuted 2003
- Peaked 2013 at #3,166 (51 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 34,185 girls born in 2021 were named Adelie (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,166 in 2013, was only 1 in 34,407 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 55.5% of all girls named Adelie (382) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 135 | #4,107 (2009) | #7,239 |
| 2010s | 382 | #3,166 (2013) | #3,999 |
| 2020s | 171 | #3,297 (2021) | #5,011 |
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.
Adelie in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
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1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 34,185 of them was named Adelie, which outranked 81.3% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,250Unknown49
- #3,250Valentine49
- #3,250Yemaya49
- #3,297Adelie48
- #3,297Alaa48
- #3,297Alizae48
- #3,297Asees48
- #3,339Adelin47
- #3,339Advika47
- #3,339Aizah47
Tied with 41 names at #3,297; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.