Adelaide

What Adelaide means

Means “noble + nature, character”

Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheid (from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”)), modern German Adelheid; doublet of Alice.

Source: Wiktionary, “Adelaide” (revision 94526102), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Adelaide?

US: Steady: #272 in 2015, #289 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #577 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1884, when 98 girls got the name (#181 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 1,513 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,010 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (3.89 per 1,000 girls), AK (3.02 per 1,000 girls), NH (2.63 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Adelaide is #289 in the US and #342 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Adelaide were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Adalaide30 US · 6 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Adelaide

Girls

• Emery#74Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #74 vs #1,197 in 2025
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Evelyn#8Same root as Eileen, possibly meaning “radiance, beauty”^*
• Adeline#59Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Willa#422Editor’s note Up from #480 in 2015 to #422 in 2025 in the US
• Emory#339Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #339 vs #3,705 in 2025

For a brother

• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Milo#119Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #288 in 2015, #119 in 2025
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US
• Bruno#740“brown”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Adelaide’s. Rank is US 2025.