Adelene
Adelene was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,140 among girls’ names; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1889 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adelene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adelene mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adelene is “Alternative form of Adeline (“female given name”).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adelene?
#7,140 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelene fell from #4,402 in 2015 to #7,140 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 9.3 per million.
37 babies in 1919, the peak
Adelene peaked in 1919, when 37 girls were given it, #1,242 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,140 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,594 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,250 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,906 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #5,953 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,215 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,115 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,409 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,048 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 29 | #4,737 | 16.4 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,718 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,834 | 12.5 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,114 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,335 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,704 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,386 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,090 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,392 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,428 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,456 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,771 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,675 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,840 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,198 | 6.7 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,697 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,144 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,806 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,582 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #8,769 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 5 | #13,443 | 2.8 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,493 | 6.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,583 | 4.8 |
| 1981 | 5 | #10,418 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,014 | 3.7 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,247 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,105 | 2.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #5,951 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #4,739 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,673 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 10 | #3,553 | 5.4 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,384 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,315 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,235 | 4.1 |
| 1948 | 8 | #3,884 | 4.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,006 | 4.5 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,054 | 4.5 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,621 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,954 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,206 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 15 | #2,125 | 13.7 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,225 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 9 | #2,940 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,103 | 7.7 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,005 | 15.3 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,288 | 12.4 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,539 | 10.9 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,816 | 17.8 |
| 1931 | 16 | #2,023 | 15.0 |
| 1930 | 19 | #1,874 | 16.9 |
| 1929 | 24 | #1,597 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 25 | #1,636 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,522 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 30 | #1,483 | 25.3 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,444 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 33 | #1,440 | 26.4 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,673 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 28 | #1,575 | 23.3 |
| 1921 | 31 | #1,476 | 25.1 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,439 | 25.9 |
| 1919 | 37 | #1,242 | 32.7 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,645 | 20.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,995 | 15.7 |
| 1916 | 30 | #1,332 | 28.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,142 | 14.2 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,741 | 19.7 |
| 1913 | 21 | #1,229 | 33.6 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,980 | 16.1 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,656 | 21.5 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,935 | 17.7 |
| 1909 | 6 | #1,957 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,676 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 10 | #1,289 | 31.4 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,416 | 27.1 |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,538 | 24.0 |
| 1904 | 9 | #1,250 | 32.7 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,426 | 25.7 |
| 1894 | 5 | #1,487 | 22.4 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,438 | 23.5 |
| 1889 | 7 | #1,024 | 39.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adelene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelene, and how old are they?
An estimated 575 Americans named Adelene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 610 people named Adelene (607 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 537 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 127,616 babies since 1880, Adelene is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 6,592 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Adelene
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 Adelene and names like it
- Compare Adelene and AdelineBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sAdelene peaked in 1919.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adelene since 1910.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Adelene.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adelene alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.