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Adelle

#4,759 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Adele

Adelle has been given to 5,492 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,759 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2011, with 179 recorded.

Babies named Adelle, 2025

1 in 118,000

Adelle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Adelle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Adele

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Adelle means

Adelle is a variant of Adele.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Adelle → Adele. The family’s meaning is “noble”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Adele.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,492 girls were recorded with the name Adelle between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 179 in 2011; its best national rank was #643 in 1906.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,018 in 2020 to #4,759 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,194 in 2015 to #4,759 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 Adelle?

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
#4,759
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
82,069 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Adelle 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 Adelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Adelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Adelle was born before 1966 — so the typical Adelle is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
18.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
35.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,073
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Choose a decade

2010s — 18.6% of all recorded uses (1,022).

Is Adelle 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
−644
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,741
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,565
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
15.6%
Peak was 2011 (179)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#643
1906

Spellings of Adelle

Adelle is not the most common spelling — Adeline is, with 15.2% against Adelle's 1.0%.

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 Adelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Adelle was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 78,817 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 50,000
  4. 4New York1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 50,000
  7. 7Washington1 in 50,000
  8. 8Florida1 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. Adelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Adelle around the world

Where Adelle 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
    1996–2024
    #4,844
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1976–2011
    #810
    in 2011
  • Ireland
    1973–2012
    #907
    in 2012
  • France
    1901–2025
    #6,370
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1959–2013
    #536
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Adelle

People whose public names include Adelle, 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.

Adelle in other languages

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

AdeleAdellaIdelle

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

Adelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,759
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,741
Best rank ever
#643
1906
Peak year
2011
179 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,492
Count in 2025
28

Names similar to Adelle

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

AdeliaAdellaAdellAdelynAdelaAdelynnAdelitaAdelinaAdenaAdelinMozelleKamilleAdelaidaNelleAdelieNicolleAdeleneAdelyneJenelleJoelleAdeenaAdessaJonelleJazelle

Names with a curve like Adelle

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

AnnabellMadalineMagdaleneIsabellBethelGrayceEvelineGenevieVeniceNevadaZadaAleen

Sibling names for Adelle

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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