Adelaïde

given name · Latin script

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

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

Adelaïde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheidis (from adal (“noble”) + -heit (“nature, character”)); doublet of Alice.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 20K(measured from records)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 32K
  • BRBrazil1 in 9.3K

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)

22,795 people, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
336 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 9.3K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Adélaïde in FR France, CM Cameroon and Adelaide 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)

Derivation of Adelaïde: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Adelaïde
  1. FrenchAdélaïde(measured from records)
  2. Old High GermanAdalheidis“noble”(measured from records)
  3. Old High German rootadal“noble”(measured from records)

Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheidis (from adal (“noble”) + -heit (“nature, character”)); doublet of Alice.

Sources 6

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
  • Wiktionary
  • Nomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adelaïde 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 Adelaïde is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—22,7951 in 9.3K32K—4
US United States—16,4311 in 20K16KAdelaide336
FR France—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 32K9.6KAdélaïde242
CM Cameroon#666≈1,600 est.≈1 in 18K—Adélaïde10
CD Congo - Kinshasa—≈300 est.≈1 in 338K—Adelaïde6
MQ Martinique—≈16 est.≈1 in 27K5—8

22,795 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; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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)

Adelaïde is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name10 spellings in the group

    Also written Adélaïde, Adelai͏̈de, Adélaide, Adélaîde, Adelaíde

  • Portuguese name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, India, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong

    Languages: Portuguese, Hindi, Chinese

    Also written Adelaide, Adélaïde, Adélaîde, Adélaide

  • Romanian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Adélaïde, Adelaide

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Adélaïde, Adelaide

17 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1800182018401860Pauline Adelaïde Vuylsteke, b. 1811Julie Marie Thérèse Adelaïde Chomé, b. 1818Adelaïde Ehrnrooth, b. 1826Adelaïde Lefebvre, b. 1860

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Adelaïde
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024640#2,398
FR FranceDictionary of French Prénoms (Benoist, 2009)———

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 Adelaïde mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheidis (from adal (“noble”) + -heit (“nature, character”)); doublet of Alice. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 4 other sources.
Is Adelaïde a male or female name?
Adelaïde 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.
How do you pronounce Adelaïde?
A machine transcription gives /adlaid/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Adelaïde have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 23 thousand people named Adelaïde, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Adelaïde most common?
Adelaïde is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.3 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Adelaïde?
In Brazil, the national register counted 22,795 people named Adelaïde in 2022, about 1 in 9.3 thousand residents.
How common is Adelaïde compared with other names?
In Cameroon, Adelaïde is the 666th most common given name of 9,064 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, “Adelaïde” — the 666th most common given name in Cameroon. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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