Adelia

Where Adelia comes from

The dictionaries list Adelia as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1859
    Adelia Armstrong Lutz born
    American painter
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #388 among girls — 18 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1884
    Peak, #322
    37 babies named Adelia — more than any year before or since.
  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.