The name pages

Adaline

Adaline places #208 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. It has been on the books since 1880 and never mattered more than it does today; 18,766 bearers and counting.

Adaline on the door plaque, from the book's opening page
Adaline complete and glowing, from the book's payoff page
Free Name Kit

Adaline’s free Name Kit

Five printables for Adaline, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.

  • Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
  • Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
  • Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
  • Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
  • Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.

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Popularity

Adaline since 1880

Adaline peaked in 2016 at #172; #208 in 2025.

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United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.

Where it lives

Where Adaline is most common

By share of a state's recorded girls' names, Adaline runs strongest in Alaska at 0.3% in 2025, then North Dakota and Maine.

Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.

Related

Names that sit near Adaline

Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.

Browse: names starting with A · all names

Questions

About Adaline

1

How popular is the name Adaline?

Adaline places #208 across the country in 2025, and rising year over year. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.

2

What is the recorded meaning of Adaline?

The 1884 reference we quote from has no entry for Adaline. Rather than borrow a gloss from somewhere we cannot cite, the page leaves the meaning blank and lets the chart speak.

3

Which names sit near Adaline?

By our fixed recipe the closest are Arabella, Alejandro and Anastasia, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.

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Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.

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