Adelai
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AD-eh-lye
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #10,104 for girls
Adelai is a girls' name of Germanic origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,104th for girls in the US (9 babies).
Where does Adelai come from?
Germanic: probably a modern variant of Adelaide
Is Adelai a girl's or a boy's name?
Adelai is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adelai in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,104th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 180,000 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, 9 girls in the US were named Adelai, making it the 10,104th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.
Half of all the girls named Adelai in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
Adelai in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,104 |
| 2024 | 13 | #7,962 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,438 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,459 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,080 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
Nicknames for Adelai
- Addie 7 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adelai
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Lorelai, Adalynn, Azari, Amora, Alaia, Amoura, Alaya, Ailany, Alara, Elodie, Emery, Aitana
Names related to Adelai
More Germanic names
Amelia, Liam, Henry, Charlotte, William, Archie, Charlie, Emma, Freddie, Ella, Harry, Millie, Albie, Matilda, Louie, Miles
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Adelai: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adelai, updated 20 October 2026.