Adelgunde
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name from Old High German
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Adelgunde is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 95K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands1 in 576K
- ATAustria≈1 in 691K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 95K (inferred from the name graph)
≈840 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name from Old High German
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adelgunde 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Adelgunde | 40 |
| US United States | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 8.6M | — | Adelgunde | 30 |
| NL Netherlands | 30 | 1 in 576K | 30 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 691K | — | Adelgunde | 7 |
| IT Italy | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7M | — | Adelgunde | 1 |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Adelgunde is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from adal- 'noble' + gund 'battle'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Luise Adelgunde Victorie Gottschedb. 1713DEGerman poet, playwright, essayist and translator
- Adelgunde Vogtb. 1811DKDanish sculptor (1811–1892)
- Princess Adelgunde of Bavariab. 1823DEBavarian princess (1823-1914)
- Archduchess Mathilda of Austriab. 1849ATnot in their usual nameAustrian archduchess (1849–1867)
- Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarãesb. 1858PTnot in their usual nameCountess of Bardi (1858–1946)
- Princess Adelgunde, Princess of Hohenzollernb. 1870DEBavarian Royal (1870-1958)
- Charlotteb. 1896LUnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess of Luxembourg from 1919 to 1964
- Grete Prytz Kittelsenb. 1917NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian designer (1917–2010)
- Princess Gabriele of Bavariab. 1927DEnot in their usual name(1927-2019)
- Adelgunde Löschb. 1951DEEast German field hockey player
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 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 30 | #11,511 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 10 | #28,743 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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 Adelgunde mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name from Old High German Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Adelgunde a male or female name?
- Adelgunde 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 are other forms of the name Adelgunde?
- In the etymology graph, Adelgonda is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Adelgunde have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 841 people named Adelgunde in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adelgunde.
- How common is the name Adelgunde?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 30 people named Adelgunde, about 1 in 576 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adelgundeThe 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, “Adelgunde”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.