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Adelard

Boys' name

From Medieval Latin Adelardus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Adelard has been given to 488 babies in the U.S. since 1884. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 33 recorded.

Babies named Adelard, 1947

1 in 720,000

Adelard over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adelard: meaning, origin, and history

From Medieval Latin Adelardus; literal meaning unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adelard means

Adelard is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Adelard is used in English, Catalan, Dutch and German.

Adelard comes through Medieval Latin Adelardus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 488 boys were recorded with the name Adelard between 1884 and 1947. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1919; its best national rank was #502 in 1895.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Adelard?

Adelard had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1947, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1947
1 in 720,000
5 of 3,602,100 births
Among boys only
1 in 366,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1947
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
499,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adelard sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1947 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 499,358 children born in 1947 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adelard. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adelards were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adelard was born before 1920 — so the typical Adelard is around 105 today.

Median birth year
1920
About 105 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
35.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 35.9% of all recorded uses (175).

Is Adelard rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (33)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#502
1895

Spellings of Adelard

Adelard is not the most common spelling — Abelardo is, with 65.1% against Adelard's 6.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Adelard is used

Across 1910–2025, Adelard was most concentrated in Maine — about 1 in 25,000 boys, against 1 in 35,115 across all states with data. It was least common in New Hampshire (1 in 100,000).

14 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Maine1 in 25,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  3. 3Rhode Island1 in 50,000
  4. 4New Hampshire1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Adelard has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adelard by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#502
1895
Peak year
1919
33 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
1947
All-time count
488
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Adelard

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Adelard

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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