Adelaide

Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: French

Adelaide first appears in the data in 2014 and has been recorded in 4 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2014 with 12 babies (rank #147 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Adelaide

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Adelaide yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.

5Destiny numberThe free spiritCurious, restless, energised by change.Sum of every letter. The overall character a name carries.
3Soul urgeThe creativeExpressive, sociable, lifted by playful energy.Sum of the vowels — what's said to drive the heart.
11PersonalityThe visionary (master)Intuitive and inspirational — a heightened 2.Sum of the consonants — the outer impression.

Total babies (all years)

Years in the data

Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time — Girls

Famous people named Adelaide

Adélaïde Labille-Guiardminiaturist · b. 1749

Stories about the name Adelaide

Old Germanic, means noble kind. It was a queen's name and a city's name and my great-grandmother's name before either of those mattered to me. It's hers now too.

— Michelle, Indianapolis IN, 2020

We call her Addie. We'll call her Adelaide when she's in trouble. Right now at age three she's in trouble enough that we use the full name with some frequency.

— James, St. Louis MO, 2021

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
2014	12	#147
2015	10	#184
2016	8	#216
2017	10	#157