Adeline

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled אדלין in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Adeline is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name187K records spelled Adeline30 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Adelina, Adéline, Adelîne, Adélina, Ädeline

• Indonesian given name5.9K records spelled Adeline4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Singapore

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Adeline, Adeline'

• a separate given name5.0K records spelled Adeline2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Belgium

  Also written Adéline

• Swahili given name4.8K records spelled Adeline5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Kenya, South Africa, Malaysia

  Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

  Also written Adéline

• Russian given name559 records spelled Adeline60 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Poland

  Languages: Russian, Kazakh, Ukrainian

  Also written Аделина, Adelina, Аделіна, Адэлина, Аделин

56 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Adeline is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In French, Derived from Adèle; Germanic origin, from adal ‘noble’.

  as a name·Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

• In English, from OG Adalina, Adelina; used as a pet-form of OG Adelhaid; first attested Adelina joculatrix 1086 DB (Hampshire)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• In English, relationship name from the Old French female personal name Adaline, a pet form of Continental Germanic names in Adal- (from adal ‘noble’), such as Adelhaidis, which became Adalaide and Alice. Compare Edlin . Further information: The seal of Adaleide, wife of William Peverel (1107–13 in Northants Charters), bears the legend Signvm adeline.

  as a name·The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

• In English, Adelina joculatrix 1086 DB (Ha); William Adeline 1260 AssC. OG Adalina, Adelina. The seal of Adaleide, wife of William Peverel (1107–13 NthCh), bears the legend: SIGNVM ADELINE, which was thus used as a pet-form of OG Adelhaid, in ME usually Adeliz, Alesia, Aalis. v. also ALIS, EDLIN.

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• French diminutive of Adéle (see Adele), used occasionally in England from the early 16th century onwards. The Latin-

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Adeline Marie Russell, Duchess of Bedfordb. 1852GBEnglish penal reformer
• Adelaide Johnsonb. 1859USnot in their usual nameAmerican sculptor (1859–1955)
• Laura Muntz Lyallb. 1860CAnot in their usual nameCanadian artist (1860-1930)
• Adeline De Walt Reynoldsb. 1862USAmerican actress (1862-1961)
• Virginia Woolfb. 1882GBnot in their usual nameEnglish modernist writer (1882–1941)
• Adeline Zarudianskyb. 1953FRFrench actress
• Adeline Dieudonnéb. 1982BEBelgian author
• Adeline d'Hermyb. 1987FRFrench actress
• Adeline Grayb. 1991USAmerican wrestler (born 1991)
• Adeline Rudolphb. 1995GBHong Kong-British actress (born 1995)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 753 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Adeline?

We estimate roughly 93 thousand people bear Adeline (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Adeline have the most bearers?

We estimate about 55 thousand people bear Adeline in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled adeline.

Where is Adeline most common?

Adeline is densest in France, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.2 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Adeline compared with other names?

In France, Adeline is the 288th most common given name of 711,207 given names recorded there.

Is Adeline a male or female name?

Adeline is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Adeline mean?

Recorded meaning: Diminutive/feminine of Adèle; Germanic origin from adal 'noble'.