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Adelaide
Pronounced /ˈæ.də.leɪd/
Rank in 2024
#271
Born in 2024
1,158
Peak year
2016 · #255
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,158 girls were named Adelaide, about 1 in every 1,393.
- It peaked in 2016 with 1,240 babies, ranked #255.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 33,938 girls have been named Adelaide since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Adelaide per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.1Silent1928–45
- <0.1Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 8,156 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Silent: 2,329 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 939 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen X: 284 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 679 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 5,636 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,534 babies, 0.67 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheid (from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”)), modern German Adelheid; doublet of Alice.
- A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- /ˈæ.də.leɪd/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Adelaide, CC BY-SA 4.0.