Adela
Adela is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 224 births. Its best rank was 447th, in 1882.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2240.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2015227 births
- Best rank
- #447in 1882
- Since 1880
- 13,902people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,902 girls have been named Adela in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 227 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 2010s alone account for 14%. It has spent 78 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adela | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 147 | |
| 1890s | 307 | |
| 1900s | 377 | |
| 1910s | 1,040 | |
| 1920s | 1,246 | |
| 1930s | 805 | |
| 1940s | 1,043 | |
| 1950s | 1,180 | |
| 1960s | 903 | |
| 1970s | 791 | |
| 1980s | 704 | |
| 1990s | 1,050 | |
| 2000s | 1,367 | |
| 2010s | 1,877 | |
| 2020s | 1,065 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Adela was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Adela
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Helenapeak 2024
- Ceciliapeak 2024
- Rheapeak 2023
- Petrapeak 1927
- Ninapeak 1980
- Zenobiapeak 1923
- Clarepeak 1998
- Sabinapeak 2005
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.