Adaline

Where Adaline comes from

A variant of Adeline.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adaline
  • Germanic
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1859
    Adaline Hohf Beery born
    American author, newspaper editor, songbook compiler, hymnwriter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #333 among girls — 23 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1883
    Adaline Shepherd born
    American composer
  4. 2016
    Peak, #172
    1,882 babies named Adaline — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Adaline Shepherd · American composer, 1883–1950
  • Adaline Hohf Beery · American author, newspaper editor, songbook compiler, hymnwriter, 1859–1929
  • Adaline Emerson Thompson · American benefactor; educational worker, reformer, 1859–1951

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.