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Adeline - Origin and Meaning of the name

Meaning of the name Adeline
 
 

 


The girl name Adeline [ 3 syll. a-de-li-ne, ad-el-ine ] is pronounced AEDahLAYN KEY. Adeline is of Germanic origin and it is used mainly in French. Alene (short form in English) and Aline (short form in French) are variants of the name. Adeline is a variant of Adela (English, German, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish).

Adeline is rather popular as a baby girl name, and it is also regarded as trendy. At the modest height of its usage in 1914, 0.110% of baby girls were named Adeline. It was #166 in rank then. The baby name has seen a marked drop in popularity since then. In 2007, it ranked at #388 with a usage of 0.040%, enjoying a minor resurgence in the recent decade. Within all girl names in its family, Adeline was the most widely used.

A baby name that sounds like Adeline is Adelina (Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish).

KEY: English pronunciation for Adeline: AE as in "at (AE.T)" ; D as in "dee (D.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; AY as in "hide (HH.AY.D)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)"


A famous person named Adeline is Writer, Virginia Woolf, born Adeline Virginia Stephen 25 January 1882 - 28 March 1941, London, England.

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