Adelie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: An Adelie penguin
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 16 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Adelie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 90K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 142K
- GYGuyana1 in 250K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 68 (measured from records)
- 1 in 90K (inferred from the name graph)
511 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)An Adelie penguin.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Adelie, 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)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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 511 | 1 in 651K | 511 | Adelie | 68 |
| SE Sweden | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 1 |
| FI Finland | 62 | 1 in 90K | 76 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 4 | 1 in 2.7M | 4 | — | — |
| GY Guyana | 3 | 1 in 250K | 3 | — | 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).
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)22 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 511 | #20,273 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 76 | #3,591 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 72 | #10,635 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 62 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 51 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2012 | 44 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 40 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 37 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2009 | 37 | — |
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).
- 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. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: France (INSEE, 2016) and United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/adelieThe 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, “Adelie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.