Addelyn
#2,017 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Addelyn has been given to 2,709 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #2,017 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 214 recorded.
Babies named Addelyn, 2025
1 in 35,300
Addelyn over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Addelyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 35,300
- 94 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 17,100
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #2,017
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 24,447 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Addelyn sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 24,447 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Addelyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Addelyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Addelyn was born before 2016 — so the typical Addelyn is around 9 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 62.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,709
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 62.8% of all recorded uses (1,702).
Is Addelyn rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- −74
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −339
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −842
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.44×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 43.9%
- Peak was 2015 (214)
- Years since peak
- 10
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.3% average annual change
Spellings of Addelyn
Addelyn is not the most common spelling — Madelyn is, with 49.1% against Addelyn's 1.1%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Addelyn is used
Across 2016–2025, Addelyn was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 14,277 across all states with data. It was least common in Arizona (1 in 50,000).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Addelyn around the world
Where Addelyn ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2017–2024#5,892in 2024
- Canada2013–2024#2,104in 2024
- South Australia2009–2011#840in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Addelyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Addelyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Addelyn
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Addelyn, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Addelyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.