Adelita
#4,758 for girls in 2025, 28 births
- Peak · girls
- 1950 · 33 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,900since 1924
Adelita over time
Rank among girls' names. Adelita has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,758 | 28 |
| 2024 | #4,207 | 34 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 |
| 2022 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 |
| 2020 | #5,667 | 21 |
| 2019 | #4,162 | 34 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #6,872 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,436 | 16 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #10,679 | 10 |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 |
| 2006 | #8,237 | 14 |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 |
| 2002 | #7,444 | 14 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 |
| 1999 | #6,484 | 15 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #6,483 | 14 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | #5,206 | 18 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,964 | 15 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 |
| 1984 | #4,478 | 16 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 |
| 1981 | #2,774 | 32 |
| 1980 | #3,411 | 24 |
| 1979 | #2,582 | 35 |
| 1978 | #2,629 | 32 |
| 1977 | #2,715 | 30 |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 |
| 1975 | #2,743 | 27 |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 |
| 1973 | #2,506 | 29 |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 |
| 1971 | #2,247 | 35 |
| 1970 | #3,712 | 16 |
| 1969 | #2,208 | 33 |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 |
| 1967 | #2,272 | 28 |
| 1966 | #1,982 | 34 |
| 1965 | #2,064 | 32 |
| 1964 | #2,475 | 25 |
| 1963 | #2,704 | 21 |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 |
| 1961 | #1,742 | 43 |
| 1960 | #2,097 | 30 |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 |
| 1958 | #2,025 | 30 |
| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #2,151 | 26 |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 |
| 1954 | #2,027 | 27 |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1952 | #1,641 | 35 |
| 1951 | #1,701 | 32 |
| 1950 | #1,626 | 33 |
| 1949 | #1,697 | 31 |
| 1948 | #1,778 | 28 |
| 1947 | #2,354 | 18 |
| 1946 | #1,970 | 22 |
| 1945 | #1,743 | 23 |
| 1944 | #2,287 | 15 |
| 1943 | #2,695 | 12 |
| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 |
| 1941 | #2,846 | 10 |
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 |
| 1939 | #1,947 | 17 |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 |
| 1937 | #3,434 | 7 |
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 |
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| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 |
| 1931 | #3,848 | 6 |
| 1930 | #2,845 | 10 |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 |
| 1926 | #3,873 | 7 |
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| 1924 | #4,434 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Adelita! It came in at #4,434, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1925, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Adelita is popular in 1954
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Texas#627 · 1 in 7,001
Best ever in a state: #435 in Texas, 1950.
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| Texas | #627 | 16 | 1 in 7,001 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Adelita
- 551 spots since 2024 (#4,207 → #4,758)
- 909 spots since 2020 (#5,667 → #4,758)
- 2,508 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #4,758)
- Debuted 1924
- Peaked 1950 at #1,626 (33 births)
- Births halved by 1957, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 40,765 girls born in 1974 were named Adelita (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 57,402 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,626 in 1950, was only 1 in 51,911 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 15.9% of all girls named Adelita (302) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 19 | #3,873 (1926) | #4,198 |
| 1930s | 61 | #1,947 (1939) | #3,595 |
| 1940s | 174 | #1,697 (1949) | #2,471 |
| 1950s | 270 | #1,626 (1950) | #2,185 |
| 1960s | 302 | #1,742 (1961) | #2,216 |
| 1970s | 292 | #2,213 (1974) | #2,689 |
| 1980s | 184 | #2,774 (1981) | #4,489 |
| 1990s | 145 | #5,206 (1993) | #6,438 |
| 2000s | 101 | #7,444 (2002) | #10,294 |
| 2010s | 177 | #4,162 (2019) | #7,103 |
| 2020s | 175 | #4,207 (2024) | #4,681 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adelita in 1954
Top girls' names in 1954
More about 1954
girls
1,941,915 girls got a published name in 1954; 1 in 71,923 of them was named Adelita, which outranked 69.4% of the 6,625 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,987Vinnie28
- #1,987Willetta28
- #1,987Zaida28
- #2,027Adelita27
- #2,027Arlean27
- #2,027Bari27
- #2,027Cari27
- #2,076Bonnita26
- #2,076Candie26
- #2,076Caprice26
Tied with 48 names at #2,027; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.