Adeline

Girl name

Adeline has been given to 80,838 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It peaked in 2016 and currently ranks #59 for girls (2025).

Meaning & origin /ˈædəlɪn/

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

Origin: Germanic languages

Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Total babies

80,838

Peak year

2016 (4,126 babies)

Rank in 2025

#59 for girls

First recorded

1880

10-year trend

▲ +60%

Gender split

100% girls / 0% boys

Virginia Woolf

English modernist writer (1882–1941)

Adeline Gray

American wrestler (born 1991)

Notability data from Wikidata (CC0).

Same primary gender, peaked around the same years, and roughly as common as Adeline.

83,766 babies since 1880

77,625 babies since 1972

77,120 babies since 1880

84,577 babies since 1881

76,550 babies since 1880

75,252 babies since 1880

74,557 babies since 1980

87,834 babies since 1880

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