The first name Adeline as well as the similar forms Adelina and Adele ultimately go back to the German first name Adelheid or the French first name Adelaide. The meaning is ‘the noble’ or also ‘the distinguished’.
Adeline is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
The name Adeline 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, Adeline ranks 111. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 17 were named Adeline. In the entire USA, approximately 60,544 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Adeline. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
The first name Adeline as well as the similar forms Adelina and Adele ultimately go back to the German first name Adelheid or the French first name Adelaide. The meaning is ‘the noble’ or also ‘the distinguished’.
What does 'noble' mean? The word 'noble' is used to describe someone or something that has admirable qualities such as good manners, high moral standards, and generosity. It also refers to someone who is of high social rank, such as a nobleman or noblewoman.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few girls' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 432 girls' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Adeline is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Adeline has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2016, the name even made it to rank #61 of the most popular girls' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Adeline was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 2,812 girls were born and given the name Adeline by their parents. That puts Adeline at #89 on our list of most popular girls' names. It was much less popular in 1976 - only 23 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter and it ranked 2,854 on the popularity scale of all girls' names.
The name Adeline may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Adeline is apparently especially popular in North Dakota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 542 women in North Dakota is called Adeline. In total, that’s 963 women who feel addressed when the name Adeline is shouted loudly across North Dakota and who ensure that their name makes it to #161 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Adeline as the answer a total of 60,544 times. This places Adeline at #457 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Adeline as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Adeline 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.
If your name is Adeline 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Adeline, you can simply say:
Apple
Dinosaur
Elephant
Lion
Igloo
Nut
Elephant
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Adeline
Adeline
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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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. Adeline sounds like this:
