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The first name 
Adelina

Adelina is a female first name.

Adelina – popular and common in the US

The name Adelina isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Adelina ranks 483. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Adelina. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Adelina.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Adelina

What does the name 
Adelina mean?

The name Adelina is the Italian form of Germanic Adeline, which goes back to the word ‘adal’ meaning ‘noble’. Adele and Adalynn are two other examples with this origin.

Adelina has been... known in the U.S. since the 1880s, but has only been used somewhat more frequently since 2010.

Adelina has 7 letters 
and begins with an A

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter A is the most popular first letter for girls’ names. 11.8% of all common girls’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in girls' names is S.

With seven letters, the name Adelina has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that if 11.8% of all girls' names start with an A, this initial letter occurs over three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the girls' names that begin with the letter A, the name Ashley is the most common.

Other names with 
A, d, e, l, i, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Adelina – A, d, e, l, i, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Adelani or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Adelina

If your name is Adelina and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Adelina

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Adelina, you can simply say:

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Lion

Igloo

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Adelina is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Adelina in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Adelina

Adelina

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Adelina

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Adelina is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

A
D
E
L
I
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Adelina

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

A
D
E
L
I
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Adelina sounds like this: