Adelaide
Adelaide reached its high-water mark in 2016 at number 255, and has been recorded 35,007 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 289th. About 22,000 Adelaides are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 9.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Adelaide
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 35,007
- Estimated living today
- 22,000
- Median age today
- 9
- Peak year
- 2016
- Best rank
- 255th
- Rank in 2025
- 289th
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Adelaides are
born that year still alive today
Of the 35,007 babies given the name since 1880, about 22,000 are alive — 64 in every hundred. Roughly 18,000 of them are children and 1,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2016 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheid (from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”)), modern German Adelheid;.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Adelaides
- Adelaide of Italy (931–999)Holy Roman Empress, Catholic saint
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen (1792–1849)Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (1749–1803)French painter and miniaturist
- Adelaide of Aquitaine (950–1004)French noble woman and queens consort
- Adelaide of Maurienne (1092–1154)second spouse but first Queen consort of Louis VI of France
- Adelaide Kane (born 1990)Australian actress
- Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (1833–1897)British Royal (1833–1897), mother of Mary of Teck
- Adelaide del Vasto (1074–1118)Countess of Sicily (1089–1101) and Queen of Jerusalem
People named Adelaide with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Adelaide is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Adelaide is most concentrated in Utah (3.6×), Idaho (2.0×), Colorado (2.0×), Maine (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2016
The most popular girls’ names the year Adelaide peaked:
Adelaide elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Adelaide +3 spellings | 12,750 | 170th |
| Italy girls | Adelaide | 2,614 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Adelaide | 1,633 | 342nd |
| France boys | Adelaide | 275 | 610th |
| Belgium girls | Adélaïde +1 spelling | 176 | 607th |
| Switzerland girls | Adélaïde | 39 | 995th |
| Scotland girls | Adelaide | 34 | 380th |
| Ireland girls | Adelaide | 31 | 625th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Adelaide | 6 | 397th |
| Poland girls | Adelaide | 2 birth registrations | 721st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Adelaide: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Adélaïde | 2 | 0.000% | 1,455th |
| French girls | Switzerland | Adélaïde | 37 | 0.009% | 331st |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Adelaide: rank by region
In 2024, Adelaide was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Adélaïde | 460 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Adelaide among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Adelaide | 16 | 79 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Adelaide against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.