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Idelle

Girls' name

Elaboration of Ida

Idelle has been given to 750 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1921, with 36 recorded.

Babies named Idelle, 1978

1 in 529,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Idelle: meaning, origin, and history

Elaboration of Ida

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Idelle means

Idelle is a elaboration of Ida.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Idelle is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /aɪ.ˈdɛl/ and /ɪ.ˈdɛl/ for Idelle.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Idelle is a elaboration of Ida. Ida has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ida.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 750 girls were recorded with the name Idelle between 1895 and 1978. Its highest annual count was 36 in 1921; its best national rank was #1,047 in 1902.

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.

How common is Idelle?

Idelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1978, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1978
1 in 529,000
6 of 3,173,639 births
Among girls only
1 in 255,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1978
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
366,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Idelle 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 1978 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 366,634 children born in 1978 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Idelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Idelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Idelle was born before 1922 — so the typical Idelle is around 103 today.

Median birth year
1922
About 103 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
26.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
99
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1910s — 26.1% of all recorded uses (196).

Is Idelle 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 1921 (36)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,047
1902

Spellings of Idelle

Idelle is not the most common spelling — Della is, with 21.7% against Idelle's 0.23%.

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 Idelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Idelle was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 424,353 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Alabama1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4South Carolina1 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. Idelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Idelle around the world

Where Idelle 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
    1978–1978
    #626
    in 1978

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

Idelle by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,047
1902
Peak year
1921
36 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
1978
All-time count
750
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Idelle

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

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Sibling names for Idelle

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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