Adeline

What Adeline means

Form of Adela, meaning “noble”

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

Source: Wiktionary, “Adeline” (revision 94526460) and “Adela” (revision 93848320), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Adeline?

US: Rising: up from #135 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #643 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 3,864 girls got the name (#59 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 416 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,200 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,627 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 VT (11.29 per 1,000 girls), WY (8.63 per 1,000 girls), AK (7.86 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Adeline is #59 in the US and #222 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 Adeline were girls.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Adaline1,446 US · 100 E&W
• Adelyn851 US · 30 E&W
• Adelynn693 US · 8 E&W
• Adilene125 US
• Adalyne71 US
• Adelyne64 US · 4 E&W
• Adelin42 US
• Adelynne38 US

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 Adeline

Girls

• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025
• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Alina#130Editor’s note Up from #173 in 2015 to #130 in 2025 in the US

For a brother

• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• 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
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• 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
• Bruno#740“brown”^*

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 Adeline’s. Rank is US 2025.