Adelia

Where Adelia comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Adelia.

  • Vowel-ended
Adelia through the years
  1. 1859
    Adelia Armstrong Lutz born
    American painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #322
    37 babies named Adelia, its best rank.
  4. 1925
    Adelia Silva born
    Uruguayan educator, writer and social activist
  5. 1957
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,727.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Adelia Armstrong Lutz · American painter, 1859–1931
  • Adelia Silva · Uruguayan educator, writer and social activist, 1925–2004
  • Adelia Sarah Gates · American botanical illustrator, 1825–1912
  • Adelia Cleopatra Graves · American educator, author, 1821–1895
  • Adelia Di Carlo · Argentinean writer, 1886–1965

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.