Adela Girl
How popular is Adela?
#1,150 girl name in 2025
201 baby girls were named Adela in the US in 2025, making it the 1150th most popular girl name.
Adela popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,150 for girls (▼ 52 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 201 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-11% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,124 in 2015, #1,165 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2015 (227 girls) |
| Highest rank | #446 in 1882 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Adela counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Adela family of names ranked #806 for girls in 2025 (#786 the year before), with 299 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Adela | 201 | 67% |
| Adella | 66 | 22% |
| Adelai | 9 | 3% |
| Adalay | 8 | 3% |
| Adalai | 5 | 2% |
| Adelay | 10 | 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 Adela is most popular
Babies named Adela per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (203 girls)
- Texas: 0.2 per 1,000 (159 girls)
- Illinois: 0.2 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- Kansas: 0.2 per 1,000 (10 girls)
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (25 girls)
Adela by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 147 | #446 |
| 1890s | 307 | #473 |
| 1900s | 377 | #511 |
| 1910s | 1,040 | #522 |
| 1920s | 1,246 | #565 |
| 1930s | 805 | #655 |
| 1940s | 1,043 | #699 |
| 1950s | 1,180 | #784 |
| 1960s | 903 | #1,019 |
| 1970s | 792 | #1,201 |
| 1980s | 704 | #1,490 |
| 1990s | 1,050 | #1,210 |
| 2000s | 1,367 | #1,417 |
| 2010s | 1,877 | #1,124 |
| 2020s | 1,267 | #1,098 |
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Questions
- Is Adela a boy or girl name?
- Adela is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Adela were girls.
- How popular is the name Adela?
- 201 baby girls were named Adela in the US in 2025, making it the 1150th most popular girl name.
- When was Adela most popular?
- Adela peaked in 2015, when 227 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #446 in 1882.
- How many people are named Adela?
- 14,105 babies have been named Adela in the US since 1880. We estimate about 9,629 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Adela most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Adela was most common in California, at 0.2 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.