Adele

given name · 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

/ədɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Adele is a given name 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
  • MAMorocco≈1 in 421as Adil(inferred from the name graph)
  • DZAlgeria≈1 in 504as Adel
  • EGEgypt≈1 in 765as Adel

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 Adele 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 named Adel, 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 1.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

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, Adel in EG Egypt, KW Kuwait, DZ Algeria and Адил in FI Finland.

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.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

How Adele is read(measured from records)

Adele 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.

  • English68%

    A female given name from the Germanic languages.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    Coast or Land, region, Antarctica

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

    Adelie [Terre Adelie]

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • French12%

    Nom germanique, de adal- « noble »; fête le 24 décembre (sainte Adèle).

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

    Germanic origin, from adal ‘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.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adele 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 Adele 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
FI Finland—4,6581 in 1.2K7.9KАдил15
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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Adele is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Italy, Brazil

    Languages: French, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Adèle

  • Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Adéle, Adèle

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Adelė, Adèle, Adéle, Adelé

  • French (Côte d’Ivoire) given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Côte d’Ivoire

    Also written Adèle

  • Ukrainian given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, United States, Czechia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Адель, Аделе, Адел, Адэль, Adel

  • Swahili given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Africa, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Adelé

  • Amharic given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written አድል, አደለ, አደሌ, Adèle, አዴሌ

  • Croatian given name43 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, Russia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Адел, Adel, Adel', Adell, Аделе

58 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)

Adele 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 Swedish, Adele (Adèle) är en fransk form av det tyska namnet Adela. Det är ursprungligen en smekform till namn på → Adel-. Adele har blivit ett populärt namn under senare år. En känd namnbärare är den brittiska sångerskan Adele (Adkins, f. 1988). I den rikssvenska almanackan 5 september och i den finlandssvenska 16 december.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

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)

1900195020002050Myrna Loy, b. 1905Adele Goldstine, b. 1920Adele Goldberg, b. 1945Adele Neuhauser, b. 1959Adele Lim, b. 1975Adele Romanski, b. 1982Emeli Sandé, b. 1987Adele, b. 1988Melanie Martinez, b. 1995Phoebe Adele Gates, b. 2002

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)

InformalHi Adele,

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 95 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Adele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—7.9K#251
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—4.7K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—10#37,213

Reference works 4

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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 Adele mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from the Germanic languages. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Adele a male or female name?
Adele is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
How do you pronounce Adele?
A machine transcription gives /ədɛl/ (IPA) for English.
What are other forms of the name Adele?
In the etymology graph, Aline, Ethel and Adela are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Adele have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 136 thousand people named Adel in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Adele most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adele is densest in Finland — about 1 in 1.2 thousand people — even though Egypt holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Adele?
In Finland, the national register counted 4,658 people named Adele, about 1 in 1.2 thousand residents.
How common is Adele compared with other names?
In Morocco, Adele is the 55th most common given name of 41,711 given names recorded there.

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

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