Adelina
- Gender
- Female
- Meaning
- Of The Nobility. Noble. Variant Of Adela.
- Origin
- French
About the Name Adelina
Adelina is the Italian and Spanish elaborated form of Adela/Adele (see separate entries on Adelaide, Adele, and Adeline for the Old Germanic Adal etymology meaning "noble"). The Italianate Adelina has been used continuously across Italian, Spanish, and Catholic-influenced naming traditions for centuries.
Notable bearers include American football player Adelina Garibaldi; the iconic Mexican-American historical figure Adelina "La Adelita" — the legendary woman of the Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) who became one of the foundational symbols of female participation in the Mexican Revolution; and the contemporary fictional Adelina of various Spanish-language telenovelas.
Adelina has been continuously used in Italian-American and Spanish-American communities for decades. The name's American climb is recent: the name climbed from outside the US top 1000 in 2010 to the US top 300 girls' rank by 2018 and the top 300 since. The name's appeal sits in three contemporary American naming preferences: the layered Old Germanic-Italian-Spanish-Catholic pedigree, the popular four-syllable structure that nicknames easily, and the in-built Adele/Adelaide noble pedigree. Four flowing syllables, soft consonants, and tonal warmth distinctive to Italian-language naming. The name reads as both classical-Italian and contemporary American. Common nicknames Addie (the dominant warm short form, casual and warm), Lina (back-end shortening, a popular standalone name on its own), Ada, Della, and the rare Dina each carry distinct registers; the alternate spellings Adelina, Adellina, and Adalina have their own SSA tracking. International forms include Adelina (essentially identical across Italian/Spanish/Portuguese), Adelinde (German), Adeline (French), and the broader Adela/Adelaide/Alice family.
Source: U.S. Social Security Administration name data, 1880–2024 (methodology). By Marvin Tang.
Quick Facts About Adelina
US Popularity History (2010–2025)
Annual US births named Adelina by gender, from US Social Security Administration records. Peak year: 2025 with 1,007 girls named Adelina (girl rank #304 that year).
Source: US Social Security Administration. Limitations: US birth-certificate data only; names appearing fewer than 5 times in a given year are suppressed for privacy; spelling variants are counted separately. For names that ranked outside the US top 100 before year 2000, only the years they reached the top 100 are shown — the chart may have gaps for less-popular historical names.
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Where in the US Is Adelina Most Popular?
Average girl-name rank within each state across 2016–2025 SSA records. A lower number means the name appears closer to the top of that state's girls-name rankings — a per-capita measure that isn't biased toward large states. For Adelina the strongest states are Rhode Island, New Mexico, Nevada.
Strongest girls-name states
| # | State | Avg rank | Births |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhode Island | #153 | 17 |
| 2 | New Mexico | #160 | 93 |
| 3 | Nevada | #264 | 95 |
| 4 | Arizona | #268 | 243 |
| 5 | California | #292 | 1,188 |
| 6 | Connecticut | #314 | 95 |
| 7 | Texas | #345 | 910 |
| 8 | Idaho | #355 | 17 |
| 9 | New Jersey | #372 | 223 |
| 10 | Colorado | #384 | 137 |
Source: SSA state-level baby-name dataset 2016–2025. States with fewer than 3 years of data for Adelina in this window are excluded. Births < 5 in a given state-year are suppressed by SSA for privacy.
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Compare Adelina to Other Popular Names
Side-by-side popularity charts and crossover years for Adelina against today's most popular girls-name peers (top 8 by US births in the last 10 years of SSA records).