Adelyn
#355 for girls in 2025, 851 births · Last seen for boys in 2014 at #10,717
Given to girls >99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2016 · 1,672 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 23,612since 1899
Adelyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Adelyn has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #355 | 851 | — | |
| 2024 | #314 | 978 | — | |
| 2023 | #320 | 974 | — | |
| 2022 | #287 | 1,102 | — | |
| 2021 | #246 | 1,248 | — | |
| 2020 | #238 | 1,261 | — | |
| 2019 | #247 | 1,295 | — | |
| 2018 | #227 | 1,384 | — | |
| 2017 | #204 | 1,519 | — | |
| 2016 | #194 | 1,672 | — | |
| 2015 | #196 | 1,680 | — | |
| 2014 | #198 | 1,674 | #10,717 | 6 |
| 2013 | #212 | 1,506 | — | |
| 2012 | #236 | 1,351 | — | |
| 2011 | #299 | 1,057 | — | |
| 2010 | #380 | 835 | — | |
| 2009 | #408 | 778 | — | |
| 2008 | #589 | 527 | — | |
| 2007 | #847 | 335 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,045 | 245 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,273 | 176 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,470 | 137 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,526 | 127 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,142 | 78 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,126 | 77 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,903 | 49 | — | |
| 1999 | #3,970 | 29 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,573 | 33 | — | |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | — | |
| 1996 | #5,065 | 19 | — | |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | — | |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 | — | |
| 1993 | #4,671 | 21 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,051 | 19 | — | |
| 1991 | #4,497 | 22 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,695 | 43 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,037 | 9 | — | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
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| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
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| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | — | — | ||
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | — | — | ||
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #4,691 | 5 | — | |
| 1942 | #3,738 | 7 | — | |
| 1941 | #3,559 | 7 | — | |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,450 | 7 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | — | — | ||
| 1935 | #2,439 | 12 | — | |
| 1934 | #2,923 | 9 | — | |
| 1933 | #4,218 | 5 | — | |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 | — | |
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #2,552 | 12 | — | |
| 1929 | #3,137 | 9 | — | |
| 1928 | #2,497 | 13 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,053 | 10 | — | |
| 1926 | #2,474 | 14 | — | |
| 1925 | #2,378 | 15 | — | |
| 1924 | #2,973 | 11 | — | |
| 1923 | #2,587 | 13 | — | |
| 1922 | #1,957 | 20 | — | |
| 1921 | #1,927 | 21 | — | |
| 1920 | #2,463 | 14 | — | |
| 1919 | #2,813 | 11 | — | |
| 1918 | #1,805 | 21 | — | |
| 1917 | #1,847 | 19 | — | |
| 1916 | #1,533 | 24 | — | |
| 1915 | #1,672 | 20 | — | |
| 1914 | #1,896 | 13 | — | |
| 1913 | #1,883 | 11 | — | |
| 1912 | #2,144 | 8 | — | |
| 1911 | #1,656 | 9 | — | |
| 1910 | — | — | ||
| 1909 | #1,607 | 8 | — | |
| 1908 | — | — | ||
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 | — | |
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| 1899 | #1,596 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Adelyn! It came in at #1,596, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1899–1906, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Adelyn
- 41 spots since 2024 (#314 → #355)
- 117 spots since 2020 (#238 → #355)
- 159 spots since 2015 (#196 → #355)
- Biggest jump: 258 spots in 2008 (#847 → #589)
- Biggest drop: 41 spots in 2022 (#246 → #287)
- Debuted 1899
- Peaked 2016 at #194 (1,672 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 19 yrs · run 2007–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,060 girls born in 2016 were named Adelyn (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,889 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 59.2% of all girls named Adelyn (13,973) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | #1,596 (1899) | #1,596 |
| 1900s | 14 | #1,607 (1909) | #1,714 |
| 1910s | 136 | #1,533 (1916) | #1,917 |
| 1920s | 140 | #1,927 (1921) | #2,545 |
| 1930s | 68 | #2,439 (1935) | #3,189 |
| 1940s | 45 | #3,208 (1940) | #4,045 |
| 1950s | 5 | #5,828 (1955) | #5,828 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 41 | #7,749 (1986) | #9,184 |
| 1990s | 242 | #2,695 (1990) | #4,516 |
| 2000s | 2,529 | #408 (2009) | #1,433 |
| 2010s | 13,973 | #194 (2016) | #239 |
| 2020s | 6,414 | #238 (2020) | #293 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adelyn in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 1,067 of them was named Adelyn, which outranked 99.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 320,145 of them was named Adelyn, which outranked 23.9% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #9,642Zylon7
- #9,642Zymier7
- #9,642Zyrell7
- #10,717Adelyn6
- #10,717Aakarsh6
- #10,717Aamil6
- #10,717Aaraiz6
- #12,108Aadhi5
- #12,108Aadian5
- #12,108Aadiv5
Tied with 1,390 names at #10,717; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.