Adeline
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in French: Diminutive/feminine of Adèle; Germanic origin from adal 'noble'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adlin/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adeline is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Cameroon it is the 87th most common given name.
- CMCameroon≈1 in 924(inferred from the name graph)
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.3K
- BEBelgium≈1 in 4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 360 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 924 (inferred from the name graph)
≈65,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cameroon, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Diminutive/feminine of Adèle; Germanic origin from adal 'noble'.
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Adeline is read(measured from records)
Adeline is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- French51%
- English36%
from OG Adalina, Adelina; used as a pet-form of OG Adelhaid; first attested Adelina joculatrix 1086 DB (Hampshire)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
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 nameThe Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
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 nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adeline counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈65,000 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Adeline | 14 |
| FR France | #240 | ≈53,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 55K | Adeline | 360 |
| US United States | — | 35,566 | 1 in 9.4K | 36K | Adeline | 251 |
| CM Cameroon | #87 | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 924 | — | Adeline | 22 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Adeline | 31 |
| BE Belgium | #579 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 11 | Adeline | 91 |
| SG Singapore | #958 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Adeline | 35 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Adeline is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
French diminutive of Adéle (see Adele), used occasionally in England from the early 16th century onwards. The Latin-
as a nameA 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 48 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 55K | #831 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 36K | #1,137 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 3.9K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 57 | #1,137 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 11 | #736 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 6 | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Adeline?
- A machine transcription gives /adlin/ (IPA) for French.
- What are other forms of the name Adeline?
- In the etymology graph, Alice, Ethel and Ada are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Adèle.
- What does the name Adeline mean, and where does it come from?
- Diminutive/feminine of Adèle; Germanic origin from adal 'noble'. Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- 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.
- How common is the name Adeline?
- In the United States, the national register counted 35,566 people named Adeline in 2020, about 1 in 9.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Adeline compared with other names?
- In Cameroon, Adeline is the 87th most common given name of 9,064 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Adeline have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 65 thousand people named Adeline in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adeline.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adelineThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adeline” — the 87th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.