Adelaide

Where Adelaide comes from

Borrowed from French Adélaïde, from Old High German Adalheid (from adal (“noble”) + heit (“nature, character”)), modern German Adelheid; doublet of Alice.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adelaide
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 950
    Adelaide of Aquitaine born
    French noble woman and queens consort
  2. 1792
    Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen born
    Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #186 among girls — 65 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1883
    Peak, #179
    85 babies named Adelaide — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2016
    The comeback
    Back to #255 after sinking to #5,580 in 1973.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen · Queen consort of the United Kingdom and Hanover from 1830 to 1837, 1792–1849
  • Adelaide of Aquitaine · French noble woman and queens consort, 950–1004
  • Adelaide of Maurienne · second spouse but first Queen consort of Louis VI of France, 1092–1154
  • Adelaide Kane · Australian actress, born 1990
  • Adelaide del Vasto · Countess of Sicily (1089–1101) and Queen of Jerusalem, 1075–1118

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.