Adelyn
Adelyn was given to 851 girls in 2025, #355 among girls’ names; 23,618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,100 Americans named Adelyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adelyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adelyn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adelyn is “a female given name.”
Rare non-standard variant of Adeline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adelyn?
#355 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelyn fell from #196 in 2015 to #355 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.94 to 0.53 per 1,000.
1,680 babies in 2014, the peak
Adelyn peaked in 2014, when 1,680 babies were given it (1,674 girls, #198 among girls’ names). The 851 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 851 | #355 | 0.53 |
| 2024 | 978 | #314 | 0.60 |
| 2023 | 974 | #320 | 0.61 |
| 2022 | 1,102 | #287 | 0.67 |
| 2021 | 1,248 | #246 | 0.76 |
| 2020 | 1,261 | #238 | 0.78 |
| 2019 | 1,295 | #247 | 0.77 |
| 2018 | 1,384 | #227 | 0.81 |
| 2017 | 1,519 | #204 | 0.88 |
| 2016 | 1,672 | #194 | 0.94 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,680 | #196 | 0.94 |
| 2014 | 1,674 | #198 | 0.94 |
| 2013 | 1,506 | #212 | 0.86 |
| 2012 | 1,351 | #236 | 0.77 |
| 2011 | 1,057 | #299 | 0.60 |
| 2010 | 835 | #380 | 0.47 |
| 2009 | 778 | #408 | 0.42 |
| 2008 | 527 | #589 | 0.28 |
| 2007 | 335 | #847 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 245 | #1,045 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 176 | #1,273 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,469 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 127 | #1,525 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,140 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 77 | #2,122 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 49 | #2,899 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,966 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,571 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 16 | #5,868 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,065 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,513 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,247 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,668 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,048 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,491 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,690 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,037 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,800 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 7 | #8,779 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #7,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,321 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,424 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #5,830 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 6 | #4,649 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,417 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,055 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,690 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,737 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,559 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,207 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,429 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,451 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 12 | #2,438 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 9 | #2,923 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,218 | under 0.01 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,272 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,224 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,551 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,136 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,497 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,051 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 14 | #2,474 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,377 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 11 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,588 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 20 | #1,957 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 21 | #1,927 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,463 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,812 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 21 | #1,805 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,847 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 20 | #1,674 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 11 | #1,884 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,145 | 0.01 |
| 1911 | 9 | #1,657 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 8 | #1,608 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,821 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,595 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelyn has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 80 years of records.
Girls and boys named Adelyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelyn, and how old are they?
23,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 23,618 Americans ever recorded as Adelyn. The median Adelyn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 15,718 people named Adelyn (15,692 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 17,071 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 30 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 12 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,800 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 17,000 |
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 Adelyn born?
The states with the most babies named Adelyn are Texas, California and North Carolina, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 120 | #288 | 1.0× |
| California | 91 | #359 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 42 | #259 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 41 | #456 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 34 | #312 | 1.0× |
| New York | 31 | #533 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 30 | #360 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 28 | #316 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 27 | #282 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 25 | #444 | 1.0× |
Where Adelyn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adelyn is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1910 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 Adelyn 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 122,774 babies since 1880, Adelyn is the third most given (19% of them). In 2025 it was given to 851 of their 4,930 babies (17%), again the third 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 Adelyn
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 Adelyn and names like it
- Compare Adelyn and AdalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdelyn peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adelyn since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Adelyn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adelyn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.