Adelie

given name · Latin script

Meaning: An Adelie penguin

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

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

Adelie is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 90K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 142K
  • GYGuyana1 in 250K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

511 people, 2020

Sources
68 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

An Adelie penguin.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Adelie 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 Adelie is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States5111 in 651K511Adelie68
SE Sweden721 in 142K72—1
FI Finland621 in 90K76——
CZ Czechia41 in 2.7M4——
GY Guyana31 in 250K3—2

511 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); MVČR — living population register 2017; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Adelie is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Brazil, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Adélie

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Adélie

39 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.

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Adelie,Hi Adelie, (English)

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 22 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Adelie
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020511#20,273
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—76#3,591
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—72#10,635
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—62—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201451—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201351—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202148—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201244—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201540—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)201939—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202237—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)200937—

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Adelie mean, and where does it come from?
An Adelie penguin. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Adelie?
A machine transcription gives /adli/ (IPA) for French.
In which country does Adelie have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 511 people named Adelie, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled adelie.
Where is Adelie most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Adelie is densest in Finland — about 1 in 90 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Is Adelie a male or female name?
Adelie 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 Adelie?
In the United States, the national register counted 511 people named Adelie in 2020, about 1 in 651 thousand residents.

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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, “Adelie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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