Adèle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, equivalent to English Adela
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/adɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adèle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Togo it is the 89th most common given name.
- FRFrance≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 17K
- FIFinland1 in 1.2K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 272 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)
19,901 people, 2020
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 Adele in FR France, US United States, CM Cameroon and 1 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)
a female given name, equivalent to English Adela
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adèle 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 19,901 | 1 in 17K | 20K | Adele | 197 |
| FR France | #523 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 49K | Adele | 272 |
| FI Finland | — | 4,658 | 1 in 1.2K | 7.9K | — | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | #279 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Adele | 19 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,100 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | — | 6 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,239 | 1 in 4.4K | 4.3K | — | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | 831 | 1 in 2.3K | 844 | — | 3 |
| TG Togo | #89 | — | — | — | Adele | 6 |
19,901 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup). 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)
Adèle 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 French, Germanic, from adal- ‘noble’ + -
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
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)
- Gerlocb. 912FRnot in their usual nameWife of William III of Aquitaine (912–962)
- Adele of Vermandoisb. 916BEFrench noble woman (916-960)
- Adela of Franceb. 1009FRnot in their usual nameCountess of Flanders (1009–1079)
- Adela of Normandyb. 1065FRnot in their usual nameCountess of Blois from 1089 to 1102
- Adela of Flandersb. 1065ITnot in their usual nameDanish royal consort
- Adèle of Champagneb. 1140FRQueen of the Franks from 1160 to 1180
- Adèle Hugob. 1830FR2nd daughter of Victor Hugo (1830–1915)
- Adele Marcusb. 1906USAmerican musician (1906–1995)
- Adèle Haenelb. 1989FRFrench actress
- Adèle Exarchopoulosb. 1993FRFrench actress (born 1993)
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 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 49K | #14 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 232 | #4,717 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 151 | #2,172 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 100 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 67 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #14,623 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2001 | — | — |
| FR France | Dictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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 are other forms of the name Adèle?
- In the etymology graph, Alice, Aline and Ada are forms of the same name in other languages; Adeline is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Adèle a male or female name?
- Adèle 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.
- What does the name Adèle mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, equivalent to English Adela Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Adèle?
- A machine transcription gives /adɛl/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Adèle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Adèle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adele.
- Where is Adèle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adèle is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Adèle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 19,901 people named Adèle in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Adèle compared with other names?
- In Togo, Adèle is the 89th most common given name of 1,075 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Adèle?
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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%A8leThe 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, “Adèle” — the 89th most common given name in Togo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.