Adalee
Adalee was given to 256 girls in 2025, #987 among girls’ names; 4,731 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,630 Americans named Adalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12.
Adalee dropped 182 places in 2025, the #19 drop among the girls’ top 1,000 of 2024.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adalee?
#987 among girls’ names, 2025
Adalee rose from #1,131 in 2015 to #987 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.16 per 1,000.
435 babies in 2022, the peak
Adalee peaked in 2022, when 435 girls were given it, #670 among girls’ names. The 256 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 256 | #987 | 0.16 |
| 2024 | 350 | #805 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 388 | #723 | 0.24 |
| 2022 | 435 | #670 | 0.27 |
| 2021 | 304 | #889 | 0.19 |
| 2020 | 360 | #755 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 289 | #916 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 316 | #856 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 197 | #1,218 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 220 | #1,145 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 225 | #1,131 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 211 | #1,164 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 212 | #1,135 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 215 | #1,148 | 0.12 |
| 2011 | 145 | #1,521 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 127 | #1,668 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 76 | #2,484 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 72 | #2,584 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 57 | #3,047 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,855 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,369 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,553 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,204 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 24 | #4,902 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,720 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 18 | #5,933 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,768 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,438 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,780 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,736 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,449 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,285 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,872 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,971 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,060 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,098 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,957 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,249 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,899 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adalee, and how old are they?
4,630 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,731 Americans ever recorded as Adalee. The median Adalee alive today is 7 years old; half are between 4 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 2,317 people named Adalee (2,316 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,649 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 6 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 20 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 864 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,740 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Adalee born?
The states with the most babies named Adalee are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 40 | #743 | 1.3× |
| California | 24 | #1,086 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #725 | 0.8× |
| Kentucky | 12 | #364 | 1.4× |
| Tennessee | 11 | #646 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 11 | #854 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #975 | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 9 | #589 | 1.4× |
| Arizona | 8 | #748 | 0.9× |
| Colorado | 8 | #634 | 0.8× |
Where Adalee is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adalee is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1915 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adalee with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 66,546 babies since 1880, Adalee is the fourth most given (7.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 256 of their 1,348 babies (19%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adalee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Adalee and names like it
- Compare Adalee and AdeleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAdalee peaked in 2022.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adalee since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Adalee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adalee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.