Adelaide
loc · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A female given name from the Germanic languages
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ædəleɪd/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adelaide is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Brazil.
- BRBrazil
- HKHong Kong
- SASaudi Arabia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘noble sort’; introduced into Ireland by the English. Medieval Irish example: Alice Kettler; see also Alice/Aylce.
Sources 1
- Irish first names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
How Adelaide is read(measured from records)
Adelaide is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English19%
A female given name from the Germanic languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
]. port, Australia; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Old German; noble kind
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
- French8.9%
from Germanic *adal- 'noble' + *heid- 'kind, sort'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Germanic, from a word meaning « noble ».
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Adelaide, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adelaide counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 32K | Adelaide | 103 |
| IN India | — | — | Adelaide | 11 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | — | Adelaide | 4 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | — | Adelaide | 8 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | Adelaide | 11 |
| US United States | — | 16K | — | 133 |
| FR France | — | 9.6K | — | 2 |
| FI Finland | — | 264 | — | 2 |
| SE Sweden | — | 151 | — | 6 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Adelaide is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Irish, ‘noble sort’; introduced into Ireland by the English. Medieval Irish example: Alice Kettler; see also Alice/Aylce.
as a nameIrish first names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adelaide of Aquitaineb. 950French noble woman and queens consort
- Matildab. 1102GBnot in their usual nameHoly Roman Empress (1114–1125); claimant to the English throne
- Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningenb. 1792DEQueen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
- Hedwig Dohmb. 1831DEnot in their usual nameGerman feminist, writer, and opinion journalist (1831–1919)
- Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridgeb. 1833DEBritish Royal (1833–1897), mother of Mary of Teck
- Victoria, Princess Royalb. 1840GBnot in their usual nameBritish princess (1840-1901), Empress of Germany and Queen consort of Prussia from March to June 1888
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalb. 1862PTnot in their usual nameTitular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
- Adelaide Clemensb. 1989AUAustralian actress
- Adelaide Kaneb. 1990AUAustralian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 81 sources across 47 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 32K | #1,050 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 23K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 22K | #981 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,805 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2017 | 9.6K | #2,574 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 1.1K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 368 | #981 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 264 | #1,514 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 151 | #6,434 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 77 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 49 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 33 | #1,805 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Adelaide come from?
- ‘noble sort’; introduced into Ireland by the English. Medieval Irish example: Alice Kettler; see also Alice/Aylce. Recorded by Irish first names.
- How do you pronounce Adelaide?
- A machine transcription gives /ædəleɪd/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Adelaide mean?
- In English, A female given name from the Germanic languages.
- In which country does Adelaide have the most bearers?
- Adelaide is most frequently recorded in Brazil, where it is most often spelled adelaide.
What do you want to know about Adelaide?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adelaideThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Adelaide”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.