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Adalaide

Girl · AD-a-layd · Germanic

Adalaide is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble kind”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 4,545th for girls in the US (30 babies).

What does Adalaide mean?

Germanic: spelling of Adelaide, from adal 'noble' + heid 'kind, type'

“noble kind”

Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV, gave her name to the city of Adelaide in South Australia.

Say it
AD-a-layd

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

Adalaide is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 30 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Adalaide in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#3,776among girls
Babies in 2025
6about 1 in 46,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadyup 23% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Adalaide, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,744th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 6 girls.

In 2025, 138 girls in the UK were given Adalaide or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #362, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.

2007Busiest: 6 in 20182025
Adalaide in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#3,776
20246#3,758
20234#4,915
20226#3,728
20214#4,864
20204#4,744
20193#5,804
20186#3,702
20173#5,998
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20071#7,017

How popular is Adalaide in the US?

Rank in 2025
#4,545among girls
Babies in 2025
30about 1 in 54,000 girls
Five-year trend
Risingup 58% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 30 girls in the US were named Adalaide, making it the 4,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,755th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 1917.

Half of all the girls named Adalaide in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,092 girls in the US were given Adalaide or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #304, up from #4,545 for this spelling alone.

1917Busiest: 42 in 20242025
Adalaide in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202530#4,545
202442#3,639
202326#4,996
202229#4,668
202124#5,233
202027#4,755
201917#6,694
201818#6,517
201718#6,527
201629#4,733
201520#6,234
201424#5,454
201313#8,575
201221#6,107
201114#8,192
201015#7,877
200913#8,884
200816#7,738
20079#11,626
20068#12,415
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20035#15,777
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20015#15,345
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19268#3,563
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19245#5,059
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19226#4,443
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19175#4,592

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