Adelle
Adelle was given to 28 girls in 2025, #4,759 among girls’ names; 5,492 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,190 Americans named Adelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Adelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Adelle?
#4,759 among girls’ names, 2025
Adelle fell from #2,194 in 2015 to #4,759 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.2 to 17.4 per million.
179 babies in 2011, the peak
Adelle peaked in 2011, when 179 girls were given it, #1,311 among girls’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,759 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,115 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,274 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 41 | #3,702 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,325 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 53 | #3,018 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,085 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 54 | #3,004 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 79 | #2,320 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 84 | #2,271 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (140)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 86 | #2,194 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 96 | #2,039 | 0.05 |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,002 | 0.06 |
| 2012 | 146 | #1,518 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 179 | #1,311 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 149 | #1,500 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 124 | #1,756 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,318 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,710 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,165 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 71 | #2,453 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 69 | #2,443 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 62 | #2,575 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,494 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 48 | #2,960 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 47 | #2,970 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,350 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,894 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 23 | #4,450 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,775 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,531 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,982 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,047 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,325 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,115 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,397 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,301 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,309 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 24 | #3,552 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,125 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,729 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 31 | #2,783 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,958 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 34 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 19 | #3,992 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,443 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,513 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,908 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,406 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,558 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,154 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,715 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,121 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,435 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,417 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,221 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #2,964 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 14 | #3,399 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 14 | #3,401 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,355 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 15 | #3,335 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,160 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,607 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 19 | #2,677 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,543 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,485 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 26 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 17 | #2,695 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,121 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,245 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,576 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 26 | #1,881 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,069 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,789 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 25 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,794 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,663 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 31 | #1,471 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 27 | #1,501 | 0.02 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,591 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 26 | #1,474 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 25 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,283 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 31 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,198 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,166 | 0.04 |
| 1933 | 46 | #1,024 | 0.05 |
| 1932 | 44 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1931 | 51 | #970 | 0.05 |
| 1930 | 46 | #1,084 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 59 | #932 | 0.05 |
| 1928 | 71 | #862 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 63 | #955 | 0.05 |
| 1926 | 76 | #843 | 0.06 |
| 1925 | 82 | #819 | 0.07 |
| 1924 | 80 | #839 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 92 | #757 | 0.08 |
| 1922 | 91 | #766 | 0.08 |
| 1921 | 88 | #779 | 0.07 |
| 1920 | 95 | #739 | 0.08 |
| 1919 | 95 | #717 | 0.08 |
| 1918 | 105 | #702 | 0.09 |
| 1917 | 95 | #708 | 0.09 |
| 1916 | 92 | #714 | 0.09 |
| 1915 | 77 | #752 | 0.08 |
| 1914 | 62 | #726 | 0.08 |
| 1913 | 52 | #721 | 0.08 |
| 1912 | 40 | #786 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 35 | #733 | 0.08 |
| 1910 | 29 | #795 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 17 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1908 | 24 | #791 | 0.07 |
| 1907 | 24 | #760 | 0.08 |
| 1906 | 31 | #643 | 0.10 |
| 1905 | 16 | #926 | 0.05 |
| 1904 | 15 | #938 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 12 | #1,028 | 0.05 |
| 1902 | 8 | #1,320 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 9 | #1,136 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 18 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1899 | 13 | #906 | 0.06 |
| 1898 | 15 | #886 | 0.06 |
| 1897 | 15 | #827 | 0.06 |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,122 | 0.04 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,300 | 0.03 |
| 1894 | 12 | #905 | 0.05 |
| 1893 | 7 | #1,176 | 0.03 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 8 | #1,006 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 14 | #728 | 0.07 |
| 1889 | 12 | #757 | 0.07 |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,277 | 0.03 |
| 1887 | 8 | #860 | 0.05 |
| 1880 | 5 | #836 | 0.05 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Adelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Adelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 140 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Adelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Adelle, and how old are they?
3,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 58% of the 5,492 Americans ever recorded as Adelle. The median Adelle alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 3,253 people named Adelle (3,227 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,192 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 157 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 314 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 255 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 406 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 765 |
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 Adelle born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,528 | 0.7× |
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 Adelle with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Adelle?
Adelle is a less common spelling of Adele: SSA has recorded 5,492 Adelle and 42,373 Adele since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 82,061 babies since 1880, Adelle is the fifth most given (6.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 1,152 babies (2.4%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Adelle
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 Adelle and names like it
- Compare Adelle and AdeleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sAdelle peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Adelle since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Adelle.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Adelle alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.