Adelaide Girl
How popular is Adelaide?
#289 girl name in 2025
1,062 baby girls were named Adelaide in the US in 2025, making it the 289th most popular girl name.
Adelaide popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #289 for girls (▼ 18 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 1,062 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-9% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #272 in 2015, #272 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2016 (1,240 girls) |
| Highest rank | #179 in 1883 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.8% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Adelaide counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Adelaide family of names ranked #299 for girls in 2025 (#283 the year before), with 1,092 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | 1,062 | 97% |
| Adalaide | 30 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Adelaide is most popular
Babies named Adelaide per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maine: 3.0 per 1,000 (47 girls)
- New Hampshire: 2.5 per 1,000 (46 girls)
- Utah: 2.5 per 1,000 (206 girls)
- Idaho: 2.1 per 1,000 (70 girls)
- Rhode Island: 1.8 per 1,000 (23 girls)
Adelaide by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 879 | #179 |
| 1890s | 1,319 | #214 |
| 1900s | 1,547 | #233 |
| 1910s | 3,908 | #257 |
| 1920s | 3,344 | #299 |
| 1930s | 1,298 | #465 |
| 1940s | 866 | #660 |
| 1950s | 498 | #1,152 |
| 1960s | 243 | #1,886 |
| 1970s | 168 | #3,147 |
| 1980s | 286 | #2,594 |
| 1990s | 724 | #1,490 |
| 2000s | 2,919 | #551 |
| 2010s | 10,225 | #255 |
| 2020s | 6,783 | #261 |
Girl names about as popular as Adelaide
Questions
- Is Adelaide a boy or girl name?
- Adelaide is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Adelaide were girls.
- How popular is the name Adelaide?
- 1,062 baby girls were named Adelaide in the US in 2025, making it the 289th most popular girl name.
- When was Adelaide most popular?
- Adelaide peaked in 2016, when 1,240 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #179 in 1883.
- How many people are named Adelaide?
- 35,007 babies have been named Adelaide in the US since 1880. We estimate about 22,607 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 10.
- Where is Adelaide most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Adelaide was most common in Maine, at 3.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.