Adélia
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adɛljɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adélia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variante de Adela.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 7.5K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
28,307 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Adelia in BR Brazil, US United States, AR Argentina and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Adela.
Sources 2
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adélia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #500 | 28,307 | 1 in 7.5K | 37K | Adelia | 101 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Adelia | 32 |
| US United States | — | 3,440 | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Adelia | 250 |
| AO Angola | #475 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Adelia | 14 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 3 | Adelia | 34 |
| PT Portugal | #378 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Adelia | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,309 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | #328 | 381 | 1 in 13K | 381 | Adelia | 13 |
| MD Moldova | — | 271 | 1 in 12K | 271 | — | 3 |
28,307 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Adélia Josefina de Castro Fonsecab. 1827BRBrazilian poet, pianist and painter (1827-1920)
- Adélia Garciab. 1933PTPortuguese singer of traditional songs
- Adélia Pradob. 1935BRBrazilian writer and poet
- Adélia Pedrosab. 1941PTPortuguese singer (1941–2025)
- Adélia Sampaiob. 1944BRBrazilian filmmaker
- Adélia Pratesb. 1947BRPerson identified in the Museu da Pessoa collection (208750)
- Adélia Sequeirab. 1951PTPortuguese mathematician and researcher
- Adélia IssaBRBrazilian opera singer
- Adélia Allizzoologist
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 37K | #953 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,942 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #28,056 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 5 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| PT Portugal | Um Nome Para o Bebê (Barbosa, 1990) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Adélia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante de Adela. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and Nordic Names.
- How do you pronounce Adélia?
- A machine transcription gives /adɛljɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- Is Adélia a male or female name?
- Adélia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Adélia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Adélia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adelia.
- Where is Adélia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adélia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adélia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 28,307 people named Adélia in 2022, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Adélia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Adélia is the 500th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adélia?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ad%C3%A9liaThe 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, “Adélia” — the 500th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.