Fun Facts About the Name Addalynn
- More than 2 thousand babies named Addalynn: U.S. records list 2,315 babies given the name Addalynn from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Addalynn Mean?
Addalynn is a modern spelling of the feminine name Adalynn. Its first element goes back to the Germanic word adal, meaning "noble," which also appears in older names such as Adalbert, Adelaide, and Adela. The ending -lynn is a modern closing suffix rather than an old name element; it echoes the Welsh word llyn ("lake") and the separate English name Lynn, but in combinations like Adalynn it mainly shapes the sound of the name. The literal sense carried over from the Germanic root is "noble," and the ending adds no settled meaning of its own.
Addalynn Name History & Origins
Adalynn and its spellings grew out of two older strands. Adeline, an Old French familiar form of Adèle, comes from the Germanic short name Adela, itself clipped from compound names beginning with adal; Ada is a related short form. The second strand is the -lyn ending, which became a common way to finish girls' names in English during the 20th century through names such as Evelyn, Carolyn, Marilyn, and Madelyn. Adalynn joins the two, and Addalynn is one of several respellings - along with Adalyn, Addalyn, and Adelynn - that use doubled consonants. These combined forms belong to recent English naming rather than to the medieval and Germanic name stock that supplied their first element.
How Popular is the Name Addalynn?
Addalynn has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2015. Its best rank was #1,155 in 2015.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #3,101 | 52 | 0.0032% |
| 2024 | #2,294 | 80 | 0.0050% |
| 2023 | #1,981 | 99 | 0.0062% |
| 2022 | #1,682 | 124 | 0.0076% |
| 2021 | #1,491 | 142 | 0.0087% |
| 2020 | #1,303 | 169 | 0.0105% |
| 2019 | #1,325 | 172 | 0.0103% |
| 2018 | #1,248 | 186 | 0.0109% |
| 2017 | #1,207 | 200 | 0.0116% |
| 2016 | #1,157 | 217 | 0.0122% |
| 2015 | #1,155 | 218 | 0.0122% |
| 2014 | #1,356 | 172 | 0.0096% |
| 2013 | #1,660 | 128 | 0.0073% |
| 2012 | #2,132 | 89 | 0.0051% |
| 2011 | #2,368 | 78 | 0.0044% |
| 2010 | #2,804 | 62 | 0.0035% |
| 2009 | #4,015 | 38 | 0.0021% |
| 2008 | #4,268 | 36 | 0.0019% |
| 2007 | #6,100 | 22 | 0.0011% |
| 2006 | #9,907 | 11 | 0.0006% |
| 2005 | #7,506 | 15 | 0.0008% |
| 2002 | #15,470 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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