Adely
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- a-DAY-lee
- Origin
- Germanic
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Adely is a girls' name of Germanic origin, meaning “noble”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Adely mean?
Germanic: spelling of Adelie; French Adelie, related to Adele
“noble”
Adelie Land in Antarctica, and so the Adelie penguin, were named by explorer Dumont d'Urville after his wife Adele.
Meaning borrowed from Adelie.
Is Adely a girl's or a boy's name?
Adely is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Adely in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 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, 7 girls in the US were named Adely, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had fewer girls named Adely than any year since 2012.
Half of all the girls named Adely in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
Adely in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,266 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,307 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,422 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 17 | #6,898 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 8 | #11,964 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 0 | – |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,139 |
Nicknames for Adely
- Addie 7 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Adely
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Emery, Adalynn, Avery, Everly, Ailany, Kennedy, Tilly, Legacy, Emberly, Elodie, Bellamy, Murphy
Names related to Adely
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, “Adely: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/adely, updated 20 October 2026.