Adaline

What Adaline means

Form of Adela, meaning “noble”

variant of Adeline || Latinate form of French Adèle, short form of Germanic compound names beginning with Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”).

Source: Wiktionary, “Adaline” (revision 63221544) and “Adela” (revision 93848320), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Adaline?

US: Rising: up from #365 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1711 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2016, when 1,882 girls got the name (#172 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,112 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,533 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls), ND (2.96 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.89 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Adaline is #208 in the US and #408 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Adaline were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Adeline3,864 US · 211 E&W
• Adalynn1,683 US · 18 E&W
• Adalyn1,192 US · 50 E&W
• Adilene125 US
• Adalyne71 US
• Adelyne64 US · 4 E&W
• Adelin42 US
• Adalynne34 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Adaline

Girls

• Amalia#566“vigor, bravery”^*
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Zelda#832Editor’s note Down from #648 in 2015 to #832 in 2025 in the US
• Ada#219“noble”^*
• Evelina#778Editor’s note Up from #1,354 in 2015 to #778 in 2025 in the US
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025

For a brother

• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Everett#77Same root as Everard, meaning “wild boar + hard, brave”^*
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Adaline’s. Rank is US 2025.