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Adelia

#2,117 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Adela

Adelia has been given to 5,717 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,117 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 112 recorded.

Babies named Adelia, 2025

1 in 37,700

Adelia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adelia: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Adela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adelia means

Adelia is a form of Adela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adelia → Adela. The family’s meaning is “noble”, recorded in English with the source elements aþalaz.

Origin, language, and formation

Adelia is used in English and Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Adelia is pronounced /aˈdelja/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,717 girls were recorded with the name Adelia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 112 in 2017; its best national rank was #322 in 1884.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,170 in 2020 to #2,117 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,259 in 2015 to #2,117 in 2025.

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 Adelia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 37,700
88 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 18,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,117
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
26,114 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adelia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 26,114 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adelia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adelias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adelia was born before 1944 — so the typical Adelia is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
13.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,679
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 13.7% of all recorded uses (785).

Is Adelia 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
−37
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+53
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+142
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.6%
Peak was 2017 (112)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#322
1884

Spellings of Adelia

Adelia is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 26.6% against Adelia's 0.54%.

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 Adelia is used

Across 2016–2025, Adelia was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in 10,000 girls, against 1 in 21,528 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 50,000).

210 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in 10,000
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Illinois1 in 16,667
  4. 4New York1 in 20,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Wisconsin1 in 20,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 33,333
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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.

Adelia around the world

Where Adelia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • France
    1900–2025
    #812
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #889
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1950–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Adelia

People whose public names include Adelia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Adelia in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Adelia. Linked forms have their own page here.

AdeaAdelaAdilaDeliaAdaliaAdiliaAdalíSadelbia

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Adelia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,117
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 53
Best rank ever
#322
1884
Peak year
2017
112 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,717
Count in 2025
88

Names similar to Adelia

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

AdelleAdellaAdellOraliaAdelynAnaliaNoeliaAdelaGiuliaOfeliaAdelynnKhaliaTahliaIdaliaAdelinaAdelitaAmiliaItaliaAdenaOdeliaAdelinLilliaKaliaMelia

Names with a curve like Adelia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Adelia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

LaviniaAraLennaMallieVidaCordeliaMazieIraMaidaEulaliaPhebeLovina

Sibling names for Adelia

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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