Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls
Origin: GermanAdeline is a feminine given name meaning 'noble' or 'nobility'; it is of German origin and derived from Old High German adal "noble". The root lives on in the New High German words Adel "nobility," edel "noble," and adelig "noble." It is related to the given name Adèle.
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Adeline yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
143% growth over the past decade puts Adeline among the bigger jumps in this range, its total US births now past 76,951 since the name entered the data in 1880 — bringing it to a fresh 2024 peak: 3,723 births, #58 nationally. The actual high-water mark for raw count came earlier, 4,119 in 2016.
Records run the dataset's full length, from 1880 onward.
Virginia Woolf's middle name was Adeline, a literary connection dating to the 1880s; amateur wrestler Adeline Gray brings the name into recent Olympic sport.
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Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 54 | #208 |
| 1881 | 58 | #196 |
| 1882 | 70 | #197 |
| 1883 | 82 | #184 |
| 1884 | 112 | #166 |
| 1885 | 86 | #208 |
| 1886 | 85 | #214 |
| 1887 | 103 | #200 |
| 1888 | 128 | #197 |
| 1889 | 154 | #184 |
| 1890 | 150 | #195 |
| 1891 | 132 | #202 |
| 1892 | 148 | #209 |
| 1893 | 141 | #217 |
| 1894 | 174 | #201 |
| 1895 | 180 | #202 |
| 1896 | 187 | #203 |
| 1897 | 172 | #211 |
| 1898 | 213 | #201 |
| 1899 | 200 | #196 |
| 1900 | 237 | #202 |
| 1901 | 192 | #208 |
| 1902 | 240 | #188 |
| 1903 | 212 | #200 |
| 1904 | 259 | #185 |
| 1905 | 236 | #199 |
| 1906 | 264 | #188 |
| 1907 | 315 | #177 |
| 1908 | 346 | #172 |
| 1909 | 345 | #173 |
| 1910 | 395 | #172 |
| 1911 | 413 | #176 |
| 1912 | 570 | #172 |
| 1913 | 668 | #173 |
| 1914 | 878 | #166 |
| 1915 | 1,097 | #167 |
| 1916 | 1,168 | #166 |
| 1917 | 1,234 | #163 |
| 1918 | 1,301 | #169 |
| 1919 | 1,261 | #172 |
| 1920 | 1,260 | #176 |
| 1921 | 1,246 | #177 |
| 1922 | 1,085 | #193 |
| 1923 | 1,077 | #195 |
| 1924 | 1,142 | #191 |
| 1925 | 1,022 | #199 |
| 1926 | 944 | #205 |
| 1927 | 806 | #223 |
| 1928 | 721 | #232 |
| 1929 | 614 | #256 |
| 1930 | 555 | #268 |
| 1931 | 490 | #281 |
| 1932 | 464 | #290 |
| 1933 | 371 | #325 |
| 1934 | 326 | #348 |
| 1935 | 283 | #376 |
| 1936 | 264 | #391 |
| 1937 | 245 | #413 |
| 1938 | 238 | #434 |
| 1939 | 214 | #455 |
| 1940 | 202 | #474 |
| 1941 | 189 | #505 |
| 1942 | 172 | #563 |
| 1943 | 174 | #573 |
| 1944 | 171 | #556 |
| 1945 | 136 | #623 |
| 1946 | 162 | #623 |
| 1947 | 150 | #687 |
| 1948 | 134 | #730 |
| 1949 | 128 | #763 |
| 1950 | 112 | #825 |
| 1951 | 104 | #882 |
| 1952 | 117 | #849 |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,001 |
| 1954 | 92 | #1,020 |
| 1955 | 78 | #1,130 |
| 1956 | 92 | #1,065 |
| 1957 | 66 | #1,301 |
| 1958 | 84 | #1,157 |
| 1959 | 68 | #1,299 |
| 1960 | 73 | #1,286 |
| 1961 | 61 | #1,429 |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,359 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,372 |
| 1964 | 59 | #1,470 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,672 |
| 1966 | 52 | #1,548 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,848 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,999 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,134 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,016 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,375 |
| 1972 | 29 | #2,450 |
| 1973 | 33 | #2,309 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,028 |
| 1975 | 44 | #1,988 |
| 1976 | 23 | #3,095 |
| 1977 | 32 | #2,604 |
| 1978 | 40 | #2,269 |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,673 |
| 1980 | 43 | #2,278 |
| 1981 | 53 | #1,985 |
| 1982 | 38 | #2,492 |
| 1983 | 40 | #2,360 |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,470 |
| 1985 | 52 | #2,048 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,195 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,065 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,052 |
| 1989 | 72 | #1,834 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,289 |
| 1991 | 74 | #1,894 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,948 |
| 1993 | 76 | #1,865 |
| 1994 | 99 | #1,557 |
| 1995 | 107 | #1,482 |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,337 |
| 1997 | 162 | #1,148 |
| 1998 | 181 | #1,074 |
| 1999 | 228 | #924 |
| 2000 | 282 | #805 |
| 2001 | 321 | #745 |
| 2002 | 364 | #690 |
| 2003 | 403 | #658 |
| 2004 | 480 | #588 |
| 2005 | 521 | #552 |
| 2006 | 676 | #467 |
| 2007 | 840 | #389 |
| 2008 | 910 | #363 |
| 2009 | 922 | #352 |
| 2010 | 990 | #323 |
| 2011 | 1,103 | #288 |
| 2012 | 1,343 | #239 |
| 2013 | 1,377 | #233 |
| 2014 | 1,530 | #220 |
| 2015 | 2,412 | #135 |
| 2016 | 4,119 | #63 |
| 2017 | 3,937 | #64 |
| 2018 | 3,490 | #78 |
| 2019 | 3,077 | #91 |
| 2020 | 2,719 | #99 |
| 2021 | 2,770 | #94 |
| 2022 | 2,825 | #92 |
| 2023 | 3,088 | #71 |
| 2024 | 3,723 | #58 |
