Adelheid
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- AH-del-hyde
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #9,454 for girls
Adelheid is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble kind”. In 2025 it ranked 9,454th for girls in the US (10 babies).
What does Adelheid mean?
Germanic: German form, from adal 'noble' and heit 'kind, type'
“noble kind”
The German original of Adelaide; Saint Adelheid, or Adelaide of Italy, was a 10th-century Holy Roman Empress.
Is Adelheid a girl's or a boy's name?
Adelheid is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adelheid in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #9,454among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 10about 1 in 160,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 10 girls in the US were named Adelheid, making it the 9,454th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 11,085th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 1894.
2025 had fewer girls named Adelheid than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Adelheid in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Adelheid in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,454 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,164 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,702 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,085 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 6 | #14,956 |
| 2011 | 5 | #16,756 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 10 | #10,675 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 0 | – |
| 1965 | 0 | – |
| 1964 | 0 | – |
| 1963 | 0 | – |
| 1962 | 0 | – |
| 1961 | 0 | – |
| 1960 | 0 | – |
| 1959 | 0 | – |
| 1958 | 0 | – |
| 1957 | 0 | – |
| 1956 | 0 | – |
| 1955 | 0 | – |
| 1954 | 0 | – |
| 1953 | 0 | – |
| 1952 | 0 | – |
| 1951 | 0 | – |
| 1950 | 0 | – |
| 1949 | 0 | – |
| 1948 | 0 | – |
| 1947 | 0 | – |
| 1946 | 0 | – |
| 1945 | 0 | – |
| 1944 | 0 | – |
| 1943 | 0 | – |
| 1942 | 0 | – |
| 1941 | 0 | – |
| 1940 | 0 | – |
| 1939 | 0 | – |
| 1938 | 0 | – |
| 1937 | 0 | – |
| 1936 | 0 | – |
| 1935 | 0 | – |
| 1934 | 0 | – |
| 1933 | 0 | – |
| 1932 | 0 | – |
| 1931 | 0 | – |
| 1930 | 0 | – |
| 1929 | 0 | – |
| 1928 | 0 | – |
| 1927 | 0 | – |
| 1926 | 0 | – |
| 1925 | 0 | – |
| 1924 | 0 | – |
| 1923 | 0 | – |
| 1922 | 0 | – |
| 1921 | 0 | – |
| 1920 | 0 | – |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,249 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,807 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,878 |
| 1916 | 0 | – |
| 1915 | 0 | – |
| 1914 | 0 | – |
| 1913 | 0 | – |
| 1912 | 0 | – |
| 1911 | 0 | – |
| 1910 | 0 | – |
| 1909 | 0 | – |
| 1908 | 0 | – |
| 1907 | 0 | – |
| 1906 | 0 | – |
| 1905 | 0 | – |
| 1904 | 0 | – |
| 1903 | 0 | – |
| 1902 | 0 | – |
| 1901 | 0 | – |
| 1900 | 0 | – |
| 1899 | 0 | – |
| 1898 | 0 | – |
| 1897 | 0 | – |
| 1896 | 0 | – |
| 1895 | 0 | – |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,352 |
Nicknames for Adelheid
Names like Adelheid
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura Aaliyah Alaiyah Alaya Aziyah Zaniyah Zaliyah Ayra Hadassah Azari Amira Naziyah
Names related to Adelheid
More Germanic names
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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, “Adelheid: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adelheid, updated 20 October 2026.