Adelaida

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.

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Adelaida, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Eulalia
• Leonor
• Catalina
• Celestina
• Magdalena

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

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

• English given name8 spellings in the group

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

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Adelaïda, Ádėlàidä

• a separate name3 spellings in the group

  Also written Adelaïda, Adelaída

• Russian given name39 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

  Also written Аделаида, Аделаїда, Аделаіда, Адэлаида, Аделайда

• Finnish given name3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Spain

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Ädëläïdä

34 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.

Adelaida is also recorded in 3 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 Ida.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• In Catalan, Adelaide (a city in Australia)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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.

• Adelaida Avagyanb. 1924AMhygienist (1924–2000)
• Fabiola of Belgiumb. 1928ESnot in their usual namequeen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)
• Adela Legráb. 1939CUnot in their usual nameCuban actress

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).

63 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 33 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

How do you pronounce Adelaida?

In Spanish /a.ð̞eˈlai̯.ð̞a/ (Wiktionary).

What are other forms of the name Adelaida?

In the etymology graph, Alicia, Alice and Allison are forms of the same name in other languages; Alida is a recorded short or pet form.

How common is the name Adelaida?

In Spain, the national register counted 7,401 people named Adelaida, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.

How common is Adelaida compared with other names?

In the Philippines, Adelaida is the 495th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

Is Adelaida a male or female name?

Adelaida is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Spain (INE), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Venezuela (asosab) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.

What does the name Adelaida mean?

Recorded meaning: Germánico Adelheid, de adal ‘estirpe noble’ + haidus ‘clase, condición’; ‘de noble linaje’.

Which countries have the most people named Adelaida?

Mondonomo estimates about 49 thousand people named Adelaida in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adelaida. After it come Mexico, Brazil, United States and Peru; the country table on this page ranks them.