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Adelynn

Gender
Girl
Say it
AD-e-lin
Origin
Germanic
UK rank, 2025
#3,101 for girls
US rank, 2025
#447 for girls

Adelynn is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble”. In 2025 it ranked 3,101st for girls in the UK (8 babies) and 447th for girls in the US (693 babies).

What does Adelynn mean?

Germanic: spelling of Adelyn; modern spelling of Adeline

“noble”

A modern respelling of Adeline, from the Germanic element adal, 'noble'.

Meaning borrowed from Adelyn. More on Wiktionary.

Is Adelynn a girl's or a boy's name?

Adelynn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the UK and 693 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Adelynn in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,101among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 35,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 21% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the UK were named Adelynn, making it the 3,101st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,566th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 11 girls.

Half of all the girls named Adelynn in the UK since 1996 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 118 girls in the UK were given Adelynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #393, up from #3,101 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,033rd in England and Wales.

2008Busiest: 11 in 20222025
Adelynn in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#3,101
20246#3,758
20235#4,251
202211#2,450
20213#5,824
202010#2,566
20199#2,792
20185#4,204
20178#3,102
20165#4,290
20158#3,114
20144#4,888
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20090–
20081#7,383

How popular is Adelynn in the US?

Rank in 2025
#447among girls
Babies in 2025
693about 1 in 2,300 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 25% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 693 girls in the US were named Adelynn, making it the 447th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 359th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 1,139 girls. It first appears in the records in 1990.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Adelynn than any year since 2012.

Half of all the girls named Adelynn in the US since 1880 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 4,973 girls in the US were given Adelynn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #52, up from #447 for this spelling alone.

1990Busiest: 1,139 in 20152025
Adelynn in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025693#447
2024695#450
2023797#385
2022912#348
2021894#348
2020864#359
2019997#321
20181,037#316
20171,070#307
20161,132#283
20151,139#277
20141,063#308
2013849#368
2012670#466
2011496#581
2010460#642
2009331#842
2008246#1,062
2007189#1,292
2006116#1,788
200584#2,179
200467#2,500
200359#2,670
200241#3,330
200123#5,004
200025#4,644
199917#5,890
199812#7,527
19978#9,797
199612#7,125
19955#13,380
19947#10,563
19935#13,435
19920–
19910–
19908#9,241

Nicknames for Adelynn

Names like Adelynn

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Adelynn

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Adelynn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adelynn, updated 20 October 2026.