Adelyn

#355 for girls in 2025, 851 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #10,717
Given to girls >99.9% of the time

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Peak · girls
2016 · 1,672 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
23,612
since 1899

Adelyn over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #194, 2016girls
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#355851—
2024#314978—
2023#320974—
2022#2871,102—
2021#2461,248—
2020#2381,261—
2019#2471,295—
2018#2271,384—
2017#2041,519—
2016#1941,672—
2015#1961,680—
2014#1981,674#10,7176
2013#2121,506—
2012#2361,351—
2011#2991,057—
2010#380835—
2009#408778—
2008#589527—
2007#847335—
2006#1,045245—
2005#1,273176—
2004#1,470137—
2003#1,526127—
2002#2,14278—
2001#2,12677—
2000#2,90349—
1999#3,97029—
1998#3,57333—
1997#5,86816—
1996#5,06519—
1995#4,51822—
1994#5,24918—
1993#4,67121—
1992#5,05119—
1991#4,49722—
1990#2,69543—
1989#8,0379—
1988#11,7985—
1987#8,7787—
1986#7,7498—
1985#8,3187—
1984#10,4225—
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1943#4,6915—
1942#3,7387—
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1940#3,2088—
1939#3,4297—
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First appearance
1899

The first year at least five girls were named Adelyn! It came in at #1,596, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1899–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Adelyn is popular in 1913

No state had 5 or more girls named Adelyn in 1913, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Adelyn
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 41 spots since 2024 (#314 → #355)
  • 117 spots since 2020 (#238 → #355)
  • 159 spots since 2015 (#196 → #355)
  • Biggest jump: 258 spots in 2008 (#847 → #589)
  • Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2022 (#246 → #287)
Rise & fade · girls
117 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1899
  • Peaked 2016 at #194 (1,672 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
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 1,060
  • Highest: 1 in 1,060 girls born in 2016 were named Adelyn (0.09%)
  • Latest: 1 in 1,889 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 59.2% of all girls named Adelyn (13,973) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,596 (1899)#1,596
1900s14#1,607 (1909)#1,714
1910s136#1,533 (1916)#1,917
1920s140#1,927 (1921)#2,545
1930s68#2,439 (1935)#3,189
1940s45#3,208 (1940)#4,045
1950s5#5,828 (1955)#5,828
1960s0——
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1980s41#7,749 (1986)#9,184
1990s242#2,695 (1990)#4,516
2000s2,529#408 (2009)#1,433
2010s13,973#194 (2016)#239
2020s6,414#238 (2020)#293

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.

Adelyn in 1913

girls
#1,883
11 births · 1 in 56,777 girls

Top girls' names in 1913

  1. #1Mary36,642
  2. #2Helen18,888
  3. #3Dorothy14,674
  4. #4Margaret14,486
  5. #5Ruth12,609
  6. #6Mildred9,921
  7. #7Anna9,687
  8. #8Elizabeth9,505
  9. #9Frances7,694
  10. #10Marie7,353
  11. #1,883Adelyn11
More about 1913

girls

624,546 girls got a published name in 1913; 1 in 56,777 of them was named Adelyn, which outranked 49.2% of the 3,707 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adelyn
  1. #1,766Willow12
  2. #1,766Wylma12
  3. #1,766Zell12
  4. #1,883Adelyn11
  5. #1,883Abby11
  6. #1,883Agness11
  7. #1,883Aldine11
  8. #2,034Amada10
  9. #2,034Anona10
  10. #2,034Arlee10

Tied with 150 names at #1,883; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. ↑ 963Dominga#1,844 → #881
  2. ↑ 931Stacia#1,844 → #913
  3. ↑ 576Olympia#1,477 → #901
  4. ↑ 559Lilah#1,540 → #981
  5. ↑ 445Elfrieda#1,297 → #852
Fallers
  1. ↓ 806Karen#960 → #1,766
  2. ↓ 572Erie#833 → #1,405
  3. ↓ 559Gertha#846 → #1,405
  4. ↓ 527Lossie#938 → #1,465
  5. ↓ 505Ardelia#960 → #1,465

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

See the top 100 for 1913 →