Adelie
Adelie was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,728 among girls’ names; 688 Americans have been recorded with it since 2003 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adelie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adelie?
#5,728 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelie fell from #3,766 in 2015 to #5,728 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 13.1 per million.
51 babies in 2013, the peak
Adelie peaked in 2013, when 51 girls were given it, #3,166 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 41% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,728 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,641 | 10.5 |
| 2023 | 25 | #5,125 | 15.6 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,963 | 22.6 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,296 | 29.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #5,313 | 14.2 |
| 2019 | 39 | #3,788 | 23.2 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,458 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,811 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,156 | 19.8 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,766 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,182 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,166 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 44 | #3,582 | 25.0 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,467 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,609 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 37 | #4,106 | 20.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,144 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,393 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,844 | 9.5 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,503 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,263 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,433 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adelie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelie, and how old are they?
An estimated 683 Americans named Adelie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 511 people named Adelie (511 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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 81,603 babies since 1880, Adelie is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 1,140 babies (1.8%), again the eighth 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 Adelie
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 Adelie and names like it
- Compare Adelie and AdeleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Adelie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adelie alive today were born 2013-2025.
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