Adelaide

Primarily a girl's name · 100% girls

Origin: French

Adelaide first appears in the data in 1996 and has been recorded in 21 different years as a girl's name. Its single biggest year was 2015 with 74 babies (rank #577 that year). It was not in the 2024 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.

736

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
1996	17	#1,113
1997	33	#721
1998	17	#1,165
1999	24	#901
2000	20	#1,034
2001	16	#1,239
2002	23	#962
2003	30	#855
2004	21	#1,106
2005	16	#1,407
2006	26	#1,052
2007	25	#1,126
2008	40	#832
2009	40	#850
2010	38	#911
2011	47	#789
2012	38	#956
2013	66	#616
2014	54	#731
2015	74	#577
2016	71	#594