Name meaning & stats
Adelaide
Adelaide means “noble kind” (Germanic origin). 22,712 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
“noble kind”
GermanicWell documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
22,712 US babies were named Adelaide between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Adelaide (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
Adelaide is the main spelling
- Adelaide 97%
- Adalaide 2%
- Adelheid 1%
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)