Entry № 133 · Germanic origin

Adeline Adeline — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AD-eh-line /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Noble"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval

A name that means "noble".

Adeline is a French diminutive of Adèle, ultimately from the Old Germanic element adal meaning "noble." The same root gives English the words Adele, Adelaide, Adela, and (via Adele) the modern singer's name.

Adeline was popular in the late nineteenth century, faded for most of the twentieth, and has returned strongly in the 2010s. Today it sits in the U.S.

Noble — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Adeline
Transliteration
Adeline
Pronunciation
/ ˈæd.ə.laɪn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adeline stands.

Adeline does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Adelines before her.

Real people
Adeline Virginia Stephen
Birth name of Virginia Woolf, modernist novelist.
1882 – 1941
In fiction
Sweet Adeline
Popular American song from 1903.
1903 song

Names connected to Adeline.

The number behind Adeline.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adeline reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.