# Adeline (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/adeline/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈædəlɪn/, 3 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Edeline, Adelene |
| US babies named this | 80,838 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 26 / 80,812 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 1,654, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Old French Adeline, a diminutive form of Adela and Adele brought to England by the Normans.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,103 | 288 |
| 2012 | 1,343 | 239 |
| 2013 | 1,377 | 233 |
| 2014 | 1,531 | 220 |
| 2015 | 2,413 | 135 |
| 2016 | 4,120 | 63 |
| 2017 | 3,937 | 64 |
| 2018 | 3,491 | 78 |
| 2019 | 3,078 | 91 |
| 2020 | 2,719 | 99 |
| 2021 | 2,770 | 94 |
| 2022 | 2,825 | 92 |
| 2023 | 3,091 | 71 |
| 2024 | 3,737 | 58 |
| 2025 | 3,864 | 59 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 5 | 4,327 |
| 1922 | 5 | 4,310 |
| 1928 | 5 | 4,154 |
| 2013 | 5 | 12,165 |
| 2016 | 6 | 10,776 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,720 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,484 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,456 |
| 2015 | 64 | 643 |
| 2016 | 73 | 573 |
| 2017 | 124 | 370 |
| 2018 | 122 | 370 |
| 2019 | 149 | 317 |
| 2020 | 114 | 385 |
| 2021 | 131 | 355 |
| 2022 | 135 | 322 |
| 2023 | 159 | 283 |
| 2024 | 194 | 247 |
| 2025 | 211 | 222 |

## People named Adeline

- Adeline Gray, American wrestler (born 1991)
- Adeline Sarah Ames, American mycologist (1879-1976)
- Adeline Baud-Mugnier, French alpine skier
- Adeline Dieudonné, Belgian author
- Adeline Boutain, French photographer and postcard publisher
- Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, American author (1824–1906)
- Adeline Pond Adams, American writer (1859-1948)
- Adeline Genée, Danish ballerina and choreographer (1878–1970)
- Adeline Hazan, French politician
- Virginia Woolf, English modernist writer (1882–1941)
- Laura Muntz Lyall, Canadian artist (1860-1930)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.