Adel

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adele

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Adel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country. In Morocco it is the 55th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 504(inferred from the name graph)
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 765
  • KWKuwait≈1 in 794

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Adel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Egypt (inferred from the name graph)

≈140,000 people, est.

#970 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

8 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
439 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 504 (inferred from the name graph)

Algeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AdilLatin(measured from records)
АдельCyrillic(measured from records)
อาเดลThai(measured from records)
ადილGeorgian(measured from records)
ԱդելArmenian(measured from records)
ΆντελGreek(measured from records)
아델Hangul(measured from records)
אדלHebrew(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Adil in TR Türkiye, MA Morocco, SA Saudi Arabia and Adele in US United States.

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 from the Germanic languages, variant of Adele.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adel 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.

Where Adel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EG Egypt—≈140,000 est.≈1 in 765listedAdel183
DZ Algeria—≈85,000 est.≈1 in 504—Adel102
MA Morocco#55≈84,000 est.≈1 in 421—Adil143
TR Türkiye#86≈44,000 est.≈1 in 1.9K2.2KAdil103
SA Saudi Arabia#179≈42,000 est.≈1 in 804—Adil173
US United States#99720,018as Aden1 in 17K20KAdele439
KW Kuwait—≈3,800 est.≈1 in 794—Adel115

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: TÜİK NIP — newborn names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adel is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname60 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Spain, Italy

    Languages: French, Italian

    Also written Adél, Adèl, Ãdęl, Àdél, Ãdël

  • English surname50 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Hungary, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Hungarian, Dutch

    Also written Adél, Adèl, Ädel, Âdël, Ādel

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Adél, A-Del, Ãdél, Ädël

  • Portuguese surname24 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, India

    Also written Adél, Ãdęl, Ädel, Adêl, Ådęl

  • German surname49 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Philippines

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Adél, Ädel, Aedel, Ad-El, Âdêl

  • Turkish surname17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, United Kingdom, Syria

    Languages: Turkish, Uzbek, Azerbaijani

    Also written Ádèl, Ädel, Adél, Adẻl, Áďĕl

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Ädel, Ådel, Âdel, Adèl, Adél

  • Indonesian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Adel, Adél, Ãďel, Ädel, Ådel

  • Danish surname31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden, United States, Norway

    Languages: Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

    Also written Aadel, Ådel, Adél, Ãdęl, Âdèl

55 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Adel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Swedish, Se Adil, Adolf.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In German, from adal 'noble'

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

  • In German, Kurzform zu Adal-[wald,bald]; mit t-Antritt (-t). 204 Belege, in ganz Deutschland verstreut; 1942 v.a. Niederschlesien und Sudetenland.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In German, patronymisch aus einstämmiger Kurzform eines Rufnamens mit Adel-; 204 Träger

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • Justo

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

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)

1850190019502000Florence Adele Vanderbilt Sloane, b. 1873Arthur Adel, b. 1908Rolf Adel, b. 1937Ghada Adel, b. 1974Ahmed Adel, b. 1974Zahra Haddad-Adel, b. 1979Ahmad Adel, b. 1984Shery Adel, b. 1988Mohammed Adel, b. 1988Waleed Adel, b. 1994

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 103 sources across 52 countries.

Official registers attesting Adel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205K#3,372
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#3,372
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020839#29,905
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010571#38,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000466#43,629

Reference works 7

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 Adel mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adele. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How common is the name Adel?
In the United States, the national register counted 20,018 people named Aden in 2020, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
How common is Adel compared with other names?
In Morocco, Adel is the 55th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.
In which country does Adel have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 136 thousand people named Adel in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adel.

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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, “Adel” — the 55th most common given name in Morocco. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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