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Adella

#2,608 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Adela

Adella has been given to 5,998 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #2,608 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1920, with 143 recorded.

Babies named Adella, 2025

1 in 50,200

Adella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adella: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Adela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adella means

Adella is a variant of Adela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adela.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,998 girls were recorded with the name Adella between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 143 in 1920; its best national rank was #309 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,500 in 2020 to #2,608 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,556 in 2015 to #2,608 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 Adella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 50,200
66 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 24,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,608
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
34,818 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adella 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 34,818 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Adella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adella was born before 1935 — so the typical Adella is around 90 today.

Median birth year
1935
About 90 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
16.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,411
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 16.9% of all recorded uses (1,014).

Is Adella 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
+168
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−108
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−52
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.2%
Peak was 1920 (143)
Years since peak
105
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#309
1880

Spellings of Adella

Adella is not the most common spelling — Ella is, with 26.6% against Adella's 0.45%.

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 Adella is used

Across 2016–2025, Adella was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 14,286 girls, against 1 in 39,027 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

17 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 14,286
  2. 2California1 in 25,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Washington1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 100,000

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.

Adella around the world

Where Adella 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
    1996–2023
    #5,688
    in 2023
  • France
    2009–2009
    #6,600
    in 2009
  • Canada
    2010–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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 Adella

People whose public names include Adella, 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.

Adella in other languages

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

AdelaDellaAdelle

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

Adella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,608
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 108
Best rank ever
#309
1880
Peak year
1920
143 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,998
Count in 2025
66

Names similar to Adella

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

AdeliaAdelleAdellIdellaAdelynAdelaJoellaAdelynnAdelinaNoellaAdelitaAdenaAdelinNovellaAdelaidaAdelieOzellaLillaCallaAdeleneNellaAdelyneAngellaAdeena

Names with a curve like Adella

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

BethelEulaliaAgathaRubieNovellaLavinaEvelineLeoraLeonoraLaviniaMagdaleneUna

Sibling names for Adella

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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