girl's name

Adelaida

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 8
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 3,210

Adelaida is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2024, when 93 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 51,007 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1889.

Adelaida over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1880s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Adelaida by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1880s 5
1890s 33
1900s 41
1910s 119
1920s 173
1930s 160
1940s 197
1950s 219
1960s 310
1970s 343
1980s 258
1990s 260
2000s 259
2010s 396
2020s (to 2025) 404

How popular is Adelaida?

In 2025, Adelaida was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Adelaida is used

France #2,214 5 in 1973
United States #2,654 65 in 2025
England & Wales #6,436 3 in 2021

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

Names that peaked alongside Adelaida

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Adelaida also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Adelaida over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Adelaida

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Adelaida — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Adelaida

How popular is the name Adelaida?

In 2025, Adelaida was given to 65 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Adelaida a girl's or a boy's name?

Adelaida is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Adelaida most popular?

Adelaida peaked in 2024, when 93 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Adelaida a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Adelaida currently ranks #2,654 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.