Adelaide
Adelaide was given to 1,062 girls in 2025, #289 among girls’ names; 35,007 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 22,300 Americans named Adelaide and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adelaide by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Adelaide mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Adelaide is “a female given name from the Germanic languages.” Its etymology gives the senses “noble” (adal) and “nature, character” (heit).
Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheid (from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”)), modern German Adelheid; doublet of Alice.
/ˈæ.də.leɪd/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Adelaide?
#289 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelaide fell from #272 in 2015 to #289 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 0.65 to 0.66 per 1,000.
1,240 babies in 2016, the peak
Adelaide peaked in 2016, when 1,240 girls were given it, #255 among girls’ names. The 1,062 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,062 | #289 | 0.66 |
| 2024 | 1,161 | #271 | 0.72 |
| 2023 | 1,106 | #286 | 0.69 |
| 2022 | 1,122 | #282 | 0.68 |
| 2021 | 1,192 | #261 | 0.73 |
| 2020 | 1,140 | #272 | 0.71 |
| 2019 | 1,065 | #304 | 0.63 |
| 2018 | 1,118 | #297 | 0.66 |
| 2017 | 1,163 | #277 | 0.67 |
| 2016 | 1,240 | #255 | 0.70 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,163 | #272 | 0.65 |
| 2014 | 1,050 | #317 | 0.59 |
| 2013 | 1,020 | #320 | 0.58 |
| 2012 | 920 | #346 | 0.52 |
| 2011 | 775 | #408 | 0.44 |
| 2010 | 711 | #434 | 0.40 |
| 2009 | 535 | #571 | 0.29 |
| 2008 | 558 | #551 | 0.30 |
| 2007 | 410 | #713 | 0.21 |
| 2006 | 285 | #926 | 0.15 |
| 2005 | 278 | #901 | 0.15 |
| 2004 | 211 | #1,086 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 167 | #1,253 | 0.09 |
| 2002 | 174 | #1,178 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 167 | #1,212 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 134 | #1,385 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 115 | #1,490 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 106 | #1,555 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,705 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,804 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 62 | #2,150 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 76 | #1,857 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,318 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 49 | #2,544 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 48 | #2,544 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 41 | #2,794 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,471 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,695 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 31 | #2,972 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,008 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,143 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 34 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,343 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,161 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 19 | #3,991 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,147 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,283 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 23 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,361 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,773 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,862 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,578 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,299 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,309 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,037 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,460 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,168 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,377 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,751 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,937 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,529 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 26 | #2,363 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 32 | #2,072 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,886 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,764 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,907 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 46 | #1,587 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 49 | #1,519 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 55 | #1,343 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 53 | #1,331 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 57 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 58 | #1,214 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 64 | #1,152 | 0.04 |
| 1949 | 65 | #1,120 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 84 | #949 | 0.05 |
| 1947 | 80 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1946 | 66 | #1,041 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 67 | #925 | 0.05 |
| 1944 | 75 | #881 | 0.06 |
| 1943 | 113 | #725 | 0.08 |
| 1942 | 95 | #781 | 0.07 |
| 1941 | 111 | #669 | 0.09 |
| 1940 | 110 | #660 | 0.10 |
| 1939 | 97 | #693 | 0.09 |
| 1938 | 117 | #635 | 0.11 |
| 1937 | 110 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1936 | 128 | #586 | 0.12 |
| 1935 | 102 | #646 | 0.10 |
| 1934 | 139 | #544 | 0.13 |
| 1933 | 118 | #594 | 0.12 |
| 1932 | 130 | #576 | 0.12 |
| 1931 | 148 | #543 | 0.14 |
| 1930 | 209 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1929 | 220 | #444 | 0.20 |
| 1928 | 240 | #438 | 0.21 |
| 1927 | 281 | #409 | 0.24 |
| 1926 | 275 | #409 | 0.23 |
| 1925 | 308 | #391 | 0.25 |
| 1924 | 330 | #376 | 0.26 |
| 1923 | 368 | #343 | 0.31 |
| 1922 | 414 | #320 | 0.34 |
| 1921 | 437 | #312 | 0.35 |
| 1920 | 471 | #299 | 0.39 |
| 1919 | 489 | #286 | 0.43 |
| 1918 | 486 | #286 | 0.42 |
| 1917 | 537 | #268 | 0.50 |
| 1916 | 449 | #280 | 0.43 |
| 1915 | 502 | #262 | 0.51 |
| 1914 | 396 | #259 | 0.52 |
| 1913 | 321 | #257 | 0.51 |
| 1912 | 299 | #258 | 0.54 |
| 1911 | 223 | #259 | 0.53 |
| 1910 | 206 | #270 | 0.52 |
| 1909 | 198 | #254 | 0.57 |
| 1908 | 167 | #273 | 0.50 |
| 1907 | 150 | #285 | 0.47 |
| 1906 | 154 | #266 | 0.52 |
| 1905 | 130 | #291 | 0.45 |
| 1904 | 123 | #288 | 0.45 |
| 1903 | 144 | #256 | 0.55 |
| 1902 | 151 | #256 | 0.57 |
| 1901 | 147 | #238 | 0.61 |
| 1900 | 183 | #233 | 0.61 |
| 1899 | 144 | #229 | 0.62 |
| 1898 | 148 | #242 | 0.57 |
| 1897 | 142 | #233 | 0.61 |
| 1896 | 130 | #245 | 0.55 |
| 1895 | 142 | #230 | 0.61 |
| 1894 | 136 | #228 | 0.61 |
| 1893 | 144 | #214 | 0.68 |
| 1892 | 112 | #248 | 0.53 |
| 1891 | 119 | #221 | 0.64 |
| 1890 | 102 | #242 | 0.54 |
| 1889 | 105 | #227 | 0.59 |
| 1888 | 98 | #233 | 0.55 |
| 1887 | 104 | #198 | 0.71 |
| 1886 | 94 | #204 | 0.65 |
| 1885 | 94 | #194 | 0.71 |
| 1884 | 98 | #182 | 0.76 |
| 1883 | 85 | #179 | 0.76 |
| 1882 | 74 | #186 | 0.69 |
| 1881 | 62 | #192 | 0.67 |
| 1880 | 65 | #186 | 0.71 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelaide a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelaide has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 146 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adelaide: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelaide, and how old are they?
22,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 64% of the 35,007 Americans ever recorded as Adelaide. The median Adelaide alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 16,431 people named Adelaide (16,398 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 16,581 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 572 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 704 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 264 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 662 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,590 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Adelaide born?
The states with the most babies named Adelaide are Texas, California and Pennsylvania, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 78 | #431 | 0.6× |
| California | 73 | #458 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 56 | #201 | 1.1× |
| New York | 50 | #334 | 1.6× |
| Colorado | 45 | #119 | 1.4× |
| Washington | 42 | #169 | 1.2× |
| Florida | 42 | #443 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 40 | #223 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 39 | #280 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 36 | #294 | 0.8× |
Where Adelaide is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Adelaide is most over-represented in Utah: since 1910 it was given 2.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Adelaide with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 38,827 babies since 1880, Adelaide is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,062 of their 1,157 babies (92%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Adelaide
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Adelaide and names like it
- Compare Adelaide and AdelaidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdelaide peaked in 2016.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adelaide since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Adelaide: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Adelaide.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Adelaide alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.