Adelynn

Adelynn is the most embellished of the Adelyn family, an American stretch of the Germanic Adela, meaning noble, lengthened with the fashionable lynn ending that has defined a decade of girl naming. Three soft syllables, a noble head and a lyrical tail, at rank 449 on the U.S. chart. It blends the dignity of the Old World with the prettiness of the new, feeling simultaneously like a great-grandmother's name and a freshly minted invention. Addie or Lynn wait politely in the wings as nicknames. Graceful, feminine, and built for the kind of child who signs birthday cards in full cursive. Unabashedly pretty.