Adelynn
Adelynn was given to 693 girls in 2025, #447 among girls’ names; 15,023 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 14,900 Americans named Adelynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 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 Adelynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adelynn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adelynn 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 Adelynn?
#447 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelynn fell from #277 in 2015 to #447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.64 to 0.43 per 1,000.
1,139 babies in 2015, the peak
Adelynn peaked in 2015, when 1,139 girls were given it, #277 among girls’ names. The 693 births of 2025 are 61% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 693 | #447 | 0.43 |
| 2024 | 695 | #450 | 0.43 |
| 2023 | 797 | #385 | 0.50 |
| 2022 | 912 | #348 | 0.56 |
| 2021 | 894 | #348 | 0.54 |
| 2020 | 864 | #359 | 0.53 |
| 2019 | 997 | #321 | 0.59 |
| 2018 | 1,037 | #316 | 0.61 |
| 2017 | 1,070 | #307 | 0.62 |
| 2016 | 1,132 | #283 | 0.64 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,139 | #277 | 0.64 |
| 2014 | 1,063 | #308 | 0.60 |
| 2013 | 849 | #368 | 0.48 |
| 2012 | 670 | #466 | 0.38 |
| 2011 | 496 | #581 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 460 | #642 | 0.26 |
| 2009 | 331 | #842 | 0.18 |
| 2008 | 246 | #1,062 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 189 | #1,292 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 116 | #1,788 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 84 | #2,179 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 67 | #2,501 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,670 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 41 | #3,330 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,007 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,648 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,896 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,529 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 8 | #9,808 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,129 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,406 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,574 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,448 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,247 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adelynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelynn, and how old are they?
14,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 15,023 Americans ever recorded as Adelynn. The median Adelynn alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 12.
The 2020 Census counted 8,706 people named Adelynn (8,697 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,320 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,820 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,100 |
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 Adelynn born?
The states with the most babies named Adelynn are Texas, California and Florida, with 35% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 123 | #278 | 1.3× |
| California | 79 | #425 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 28 | #617 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 27 | #416 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 25 | #442 | 0.9× |
| Indiana | 25 | #278 | 1.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | #466 | 0.9× |
| New York | 21 | #758 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 19 | #515 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 18 | #457 | 1.0× |
Where Adelynn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adelynn is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1990 it was given 1.3 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 Adelynn 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 116,767 babies since 1880, Adelynn is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 it was given to 693 of their 4,766 babies (15%), again the fourth 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 Adelynn
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 Adelynn and names like it
- Compare Adelynn and AdalynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdelynn peaked in 2015.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adelynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Adelynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adelynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.