Adalena
Feminine · “noble”
Adalena joins adal, the Germanic word for noble, to a -lena ending — and the result sits between Adeline and Magdalena without being either.
How old is the name Adalena?
Adalena first appears in US birth records in 2001 — 24 years ago. The typical Adalena is a kid of about 9 — this name's wave is very recent. About 600 people named Adalena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Adalena most popular?
Adalena peaked in 2015, reaching #3595 nationally. Today it ranks #3903, 308 places below that high. See the whole 2015 chart.
Where it comes from
Origin, sound and short forms
Our story of Adalena
Ours, offered as ours. Adal is one of the most productive elements European naming has ever had — it gave Adelheid, which became both Adelaide and, by way of Norman French, Alice, two names nobody would guess were the same. Adalena takes the same opening and puts a Latinate ending on it. The noble at the front is genuinely there and a thousand years old; the join is recent and American.
Meaningscholars disagree
noble
The Adal- opening is documented: Germanic adal, noble, which opens Adelaide, Adeline and Albert. The -lena ending may come from Magdalena or Helena or be a modern suffix. The compound is not attested historically.
Pronouncing Adalena
ad-uh-LAY-nah
Four syllables with the stress on the third. Some families say ad-uh-LEE-nah.
Nicknames for Adalena
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 2001
- Most girls named
- 201543 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3595reached in 2015
- Change vs 2024
- +42.3%37 in 2025, from 26
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Adalena in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Adelheid in German — related form
- Magdalena in Spanish — related form
- Adeline in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, New York, California.
Adalenas among us
people named Adalena are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 43,440 born in 2025 was named Adalena
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Adalena
- #3903
- Adalena on the 2025 chart
- #912
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adalena went to 37 girls in 2025, but Adaleena is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 48, which makes it the 912th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,991 places above the chart.
- Adalena37
- Adaleena11
About 1 girl in 33,485 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 43,440 for Adalena itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Dabney test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Adalena's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Dabney climbed just as high around 1948, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Dabney's path sketches the road Adalena is walking now.
Adalena sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Adalena is headed
Adalena should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Adalena beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Adalena in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Ada and Lena are both complete names in their own right.
- A genuinely old Germanic element stands at the front of it.
- Open vowels make it easy to say in most languages.
- The third vowel is unsettled between LAY and LEE.
- Adalena, Adelina and Adalynn are all in use and get confused.
- The compound is modern, so no historical bearer stands behind it.
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Frequently asked
- How many Adalenas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Adalena are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Adalena?
- Adalena is the most-used spelling in US records — 37 of the 48 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Adaleena.
- How popular is the name Adalena in 2025?
- Adalena ranks #3903 among US girl names in 2025, with 37 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Adalena?
- About 1 in every 43,440 US girls born in 2025 was named Adalena — 37 in all.
- Will my child share the name Adalena with classmates?
- Adalena will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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