Adelaide

Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: French

Adelaide first appears in the data in 1880 and has been recorded in 145 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2016 with 1,240 babies (rank #255 that year). In 2024 it was given to 1,158 girls (rank #271). Its popularity has been fairly steady recently.

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.

33,938

Total babies (all years)

145

Years in the data

1,240

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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Names ranked near Adelaide in 2024

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all girls' names registered that year.

Year	Babies	Rank
1880	65	#186
1881	62	#192
1882	74	#186
1883	85	#179
1884	98	#182
1885	94	#194
1886	94	#204
1887	104	#198
1888	98	#233
1889	105	#227
1890	102	#242
1891	119	#221
1892	112	#248
1893	144	#214
1894	136	#228
1895	142	#230
1896	130	#245
1897	142	#233
1898	148	#242
1899	144	#229
1900	183	#233
1901	147	#238
1902	151	#256
1903	144	#256
1904	123	#288
1905	130	#291
1906	154	#266
1907	150	#285
1908	167	#273
1909	198	#254
1910	206	#270
1911	223	#259
1912	299	#258
1913	321	#257
1914	396	#259
1915	502	#262
1916	449	#280
1917	537	#268
1918	486	#286
1919	489	#286
1920	471	#299
1921	437	#312
1922	414	#320
1923	368	#343
1924	330	#376
1925	308	#391
1926	275	#409
1927	281	#409
1928	240	#438
1929	220	#444
1930	209	#465
1931	148	#543
1932	130	#576
1933	118	#594
1934	139	#544
1935	102	#646
1936	128	#586
1937	110	#646
1938	117	#635
1939	97	#693
1940	110	#660
1941	111	#669
1942	95	#781
1943	113	#725
1944	75	#881
1945	67	#925
1946	66	#1,042
1947	80	#984
1948	84	#950
1949	65	#1,121
1950	64	#1,153
1951	58	#1,215
1952	57	#1,256
1953	53	#1,332
1954	55	#1,344
1955	44	#1,537
1956	49	#1,520
1957	46	#1,588
1958	33	#1,908
1959	39	#1,765
1960	36	#1,887
1961	28	#2,252
1962	32	#2,073
1963	26	#2,365
1964	24	#2,530
1965	18	#2,938
1966	20	#2,752
1967	26	#2,377
1968	17	#3,169
1969	16	#3,461
1970	14	#4,038
1971	13	#4,310
1972	13	#4,301
1973	9	#5,579
1974	16	#3,862
1975	17	#3,773
1976	14	#4,361
1977	23	#3,268
1978	23	#3,284
1979	26	#3,147
1980	19	#3,993
1981	18	#4,161
1982	25	#3,343
1983	34	#2,595
1984	27	#3,144
1985	30	#3,008
1986	31	#2,973
1987	34	#2,852
1988	39	#2,700
1989	29	#3,477
1990	41	#2,799
1991	48	#2,550
1992	49	#2,549
1993	55	#2,323
1994	76	#1,862
1995	62	#2,155
1996	81	#1,805
1997	91	#1,707
1998	106	#1,557
1999	115	#1,492
2000	134	#1,387
2001	167	#1,213
2002	174	#1,179
2003	167	#1,254
2004	211	#1,086
2005	278	#901
2006	285	#926
2007	410	#713
2008	558	#551
2009	535	#571
2010	711	#434
2011	775	#408
2012	919	#346
2013	1,020	#320
2014	1,050	#317
2015	1,163	#272
2016	1,240	#255
2017	1,163	#277
2018	1,118	#297
2019	1,065	#304
2020	1,139	#272
2021	1,190	#261
2022	1,122	#282
2023	1,106	#284
2024	1,158	#271