Adeela
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-DEE-la
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,990 for girls
Adeela is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “just, fair”. In 2025 it ranked 5,990th for girls in the UK (3 babies).
What does Adeela mean?
Arabic: feminine of Adeel
“just, fair”
Feminine of Adeel, sharing its Arabic root with Adil, linked to fairness and justice.
Is Adeela a girl's or a boy's name?
Adeela is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adeela in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,990th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 93,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 3 girls in the UK were named Adeela, making it the 5,990th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1998, with 11 girls.
2025 had more girls named Adeela than any year since 2015.
Half of all the girls named Adeela in the UK since 1996 were born between 1998 and 2010. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
Among girls in 2025, it was 5,925th in England and Wales.
Adeela in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,990 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 3 | #5,983 |
| 2014 | 3 | #5,920 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #5,058 |
| 2011 | 6 | #3,737 |
| 2010 | 4 | #4,931 |
| 2009 | 3 | #5,801 |
| 2008 | 3 | #5,772 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 3 | #5,259 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 4 | #3,768 |
| 2002 | 7 | #2,436 |
| 2001 | 4 | #3,427 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 5 | #2,912 |
| 1998 | 11 | #1,694 |
| 1997 | 7 | #2,281 |
| 1996 | 8 | #2,012 |
Names like Adeela
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aysha, Alisha, Faiza, Salma, Afifa, Habiba, Sabiha, Nafisa, Humaira, Safia, Fariha, Saba
Names related to Adeela
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Aaliyah, Amir, Amira, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adeela: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adeela, updated 20 October 2026.