Adela — #1095 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Adela

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,902 babies named Adela between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Adela currently holds the #1095 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 227 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Adela performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,877 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Adela shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 3,984 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Adela in 29 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Adela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 13,902 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.