Adalynn
Adalynn was given to 1,683 girls in 2025, #184 among girls’ names; 34,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 34,000 Americans named Adalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 12.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adalynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adalynn is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard variant of Adeline with -lynn. Can also be construed as Ada + -lynn.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adalynn?
#184 among girls’ names, 2025
Adalynn fell from #124 in 2015 to #184 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.5 to 1.0 per 1,000.
2,815 babies in 2018, the peak
Adalynn peaked in 2018, when 2,815 girls were given it, #108 among girls’ names. The 1,683 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,683 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,861 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 2,156 | #129 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 2,123 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 2021 | 2,337 | #119 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,340 | #116 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,327 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 2018 | 2,815 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 2,673 | #116 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 2,598 | #124 | 1.5 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,623 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 2014 | 2,523 | #129 | 1.4 |
| 2013 | 1,845 | #173 | 1.1 |
| 2012 | 1,339 | #240 | 0.76 |
| 2011 | 966 | #328 | 0.55 |
| 2010 | 691 | #446 | 0.39 |
| 2009 | 434 | #669 | 0.24 |
| 2008 | 330 | #850 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 215 | #1,180 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 84 | #2,267 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 61 | #2,727 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,124 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,652 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #3,974 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,318 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,151 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,483 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,122 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 6 | #11,813 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adalynn, and how old are they?
34,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 34,210 Americans ever recorded as Adalynn. The median Adalynn alive today is 8 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 18,115 people named Adalynn (18,091 women and girls, 24 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 22,162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29,700 |
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 Adalynn born?
The states with the most babies named Adalynn are Texas, California and Ohio, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 219 | #145 | 1.2× |
| California | 123 | #267 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 94 | #108 | 1.5× |
| Florida | 79 | #239 | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 71 | #83 | 1.6× |
| Tennessee | 66 | #109 | 1.3× |
| Georgia | 63 | #158 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 58 | #196 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 56 | #192 | 1.1× |
| Alabama | 54 | #69 | 1.4× |
Where Adalynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adalynn is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1996 it was given 2.0 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 Adalynn 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 117,144 babies since 1880, Adalynn is the most given (29% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,683 of their 4,756 babies (35%), again the most given.
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 Adalynn
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 Adalynn and names like it
- Compare Adalynn and AdalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdalynn peaked in 2018.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adalynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Adalynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adalynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.