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Adelita

#4,758 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Adela

Adelita has been given to 1,900 babies in the U.S. since 1924. In 2025 it ranked #4,758 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 43 recorded.

Babies named Adelita, 2025

1 in 118,000

Adelita over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adelita: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Adela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adelita means

Adelita is a diminutive of Adela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Adelita is used in Spanish.

Adelita comes through Spanish Adela.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Adelita is pronounced /adeˈlita/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,900 girls were recorded with the name Adelita between 1924 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 43 in 1961; its best national rank was #1,625 in 1950.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,665 in 2020 to #4,758 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,272 in 2015 to #4,758 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 Adelita?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 118,000
28 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 57,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,758
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adelita 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adelita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adelitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adelita was born before 1974 — so the typical Adelita is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
15.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,646
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Choose a decade

1960s — 15.9% of all recorded uses (302).

Is Adelita 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
−551
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+907
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,514
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.75×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
65.1%
Peak was 1961 (43)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,625
1950

Spellings of Adelita

Adelita is not the most common spelling — Amelia is, with 56.7% against Adelita's 0.38%.

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 Adelita is used

Across 1910–2025, Adelita was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 44,615 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

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. Adelita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adelita around the world

Where Adelita 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.

  • South Australia
    1999–1999
    #729
    in 1999

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Adelita by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,758
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 907
Best rank ever
#1,625
1950
Peak year
1961
43 that year
First recorded
1924
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,900
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Adelita

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

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Sibling names for Adelita

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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