Edlyn

Girls' name

Noble, through Edeline

Edlyn has been given to 496 babies in the U.S. since 1955. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1989, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Edlyn, 2024

1 in 418,000

Edlyn over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Edlyn: meaning, origin, and history

Noble, through Edeline

Germanic languages

What Edlyn means

Edlyn belongs to the name family reached through Edlyn → Edeline → Adeline → Adela. Its meaning is “noble”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

A 20th-century coinage, apparently a blend of Ed + Lyn, or a variant of Edeline.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Edlyn (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Edlyn is used in English, Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Edlyn is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Edeline, Adeline and Adela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Edlyn is pronounced /ˈɛdlɪn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 496 girls were recorded with the name Edlyn between 1955 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1989; its best national rank was #3,699 in 1989.

How common is Edlyn?

Edlyn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024: 1 in 418,000; 8 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only: 1 in 203,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 289,633 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Edlyn sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Edlyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Edlyns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Edlyn was born before 2003 — so the typical Edlyn is around 22 today.

Median birth year: 2003; About 22 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 28.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 55.2%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 496; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 28.0% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Edlyn 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1989 (27)
Years since peak: 36; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 38.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,699; 1989

Spellings of Edlyn

Edlyn is not the most common spelling — Evelyn is, with 57.0% against Edlyn's 0.04%.

Evelyn57.0%639,756
Ellen24.5%275,284
Eden4.7%52,434
Adalyn2.8%31,014
Adelyn2.1%23,612
Evalyn0.85%9,567
Eryn0.66%7,415
Kalyn0.66%7,412

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 Edlyn is used

Across 1910–2025, Edlyn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 342,858 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 100,000
2New York1 in —
3Texas1 in —

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. Edlyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Edlyn around the world

Where Edlyn 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 & Wales
2005–2024
#5,892
in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Edlyn by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,699; 1989
Peak year: 1989; 27 that year
First recorded: 1955
Last recorded: 2024
All-time count: 496
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Edlyn

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Ezlyn Emlyn Aslyn Kylyn Halyn Rylyn Edlin Eilyn Valyn Tylyn Azlyn Evlyn Talyn Aelyn Edelyn Alyn Analyn Falyn Kallyn Hailyn Adlyn Haelyn Arilyn Callyn

Sibling names for Edlyn

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Stephani Ashli Felisha Jalisa Britany Chantelle Leandra Lissette

For a brother

Kelsey Garrick Lauren Hakeem Demario Jerrell Arron Laron

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