girls:
73.2k births since 1880
#458 (92nd percentile)
boys:
26 births since 1921
#4560 (1st percentile)
overall:
73.2k births since 1880
#848 (89th percentile)
The name Adeline is the #848 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 73,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 89.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 89.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #458 (92.0% percentile) for all time with 73,177 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,560 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1921.
Adeline has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1921 for boys).
The name Adeline has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Adeline reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 93.6% percentile (ranked #62) with 2,127 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 2,127 births per million (ranked 93.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Adeline ranks #69 for girls (92.8% percentile) with 1,757 births per million, which is 82.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Adeline reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #920) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adeline".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Adeline. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 28.4% confident that Adeline is pronounced as A-duh-LAIN, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is A-duh-lain, at 28.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AE1 D AH0 L AY1 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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