Adele

Where Adele comes from

Borrowed from French Adèle, equivalent of Adela, from a Germanic root meaning “noble”. Compare athel, German edel, Old English æþele.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adele
  • Germanic
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #240 among girls — 41 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1914
    Peak, #187
    709 babies named Adele — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1939
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #374.
  4. 1945
    Adele Goldberg born
    American computer scientist
  5. 1988
    Adele born
    English singer-songwriter
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Adele · English singer-songwriter, born 1988
  • Adele Goldberg · American computer scientist, born 1945
  • Adele Jergens · American actress, 1917–2002
  • Adele Goldstine · American computer programmer, 1920–1964
  • Adele Mara · American actress, 1923–2010

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.