Adelia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variante de Adela
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɐdɛljɐ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Adelia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- PTPortugal≈1 in 5.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- BRBrazil1 in 7.5K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 13K
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)
- Sources
- 250 (measured from records)
- 1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
28,307 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variante de Adela.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Adelia, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Adelia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #500 | 28,307 | 1 in 7.5K | 37K | Adelia | 101 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Adelia | 32 |
| US United States | — | 3,440 | 1 in 97K | 3.4K | Adelia | 250 |
| AO Angola | #475 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Adelia | 14 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 3 | Adelia | 34 |
| PT Portugal | #378 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Adelia | 45 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,309 | 1 in 4.3K | 1.7K | — | 2 |
| CR Costa Rica | #328 | 381 | 1 in 13K | 381 | Adelia | 13 |
| MD Moldova | — | 271 | 1 in 12K | 271 | — | 3 |
28,307 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; datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Adelia 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 Ewe, sixth
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Delia Scalab. 1929ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress, dancer and singer (1929–2004)
- Delia Derbyshireb. 1937GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician and composer of electronic music (1937–2001)
- Alma Delia Fuentesb. 1937MXnot in their usual nameMexican actress (1937-2017)
- Delia Smithb. 1941GBnot in their usual nameEnglish cook and television presenter
- Delia Ephronb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer and film producer
- Dee Dee Warwickb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican soul singer (1945–2008)
- Delia Boccardob. 1948ITnot in their usual nameItalian actress (born 1948)
- Delia Owensb. 1949USnot in their usual nameAmerican author and zoologist
- Delia Shermanb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
- Ruth Kearneyb. 1989IEnot in their usual nameIrish 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
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 64 sources across 38 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 37K | #954 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 28K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 28K | #853 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 3.4K | #5,102 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.7K | #609 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 381 | #986 |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 271 | #596 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 141 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #853 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 88 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 20 | #19,845 |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Adelia?
- A machine transcription gives /ɐdɛljɐ/ (IPA) for Portuguese.
- What does the name Adelia mean, and where does it come from?
- Variante de Adela. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- What are other forms of the name Adelia?
- In the etymology graph, Alicia, Delia and Aline are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Adelia a male or female name?
- Adelia 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 common is the name Adelia?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 28,307 people named Adelia in 2022, about 1 in 7.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Adelia compared with other names?
- In Brazil, Adelia is the 500th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Adelia have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Adelia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adelia.
- Where is Adelia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adelia is densest in Finland — about 1 in 4.3 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Adelia?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adeliaThe 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, “Adelia” — the 500th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.