Adele Girl
How popular is Adele?
#751 girl name in 2025
362 baby girls were named Adele in the US in 2025, making it the 751st most popular girl name.
Adele popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #751 for girls (▲ 46 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 362 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-18% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #645 in 2015, #791 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1918 (1,030 girls) |
| Highest rank | #187 in 1914 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Adele counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Adele family of names ranked #645 for girls in 2025 (#670 the year before), with 418 babies in all.
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 Adele is most popular
Babies named Adele per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- New York: 0.7 per 1,000 (284 girls)
- New Jersey: 0.6 per 1,000 (103 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.5 per 1,000 (41 girls)
- District of Columbia: 0.4 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Washington: 0.4 per 1,000 (59 girls)
Adele by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 748 | #208 |
| 1890s | 1,498 | #202 |
| 1900s | 1,881 | #220 |
| 1910s | 6,880 | #187 |
| 1920s | 7,660 | #206 |
| 1930s | 4,076 | #266 |
| 1940s | 3,763 | #360 |
| 1950s | 3,863 | #376 |
| 1960s | 1,892 | #605 |
| 1970s | 1,006 | #1,088 |
| 1980s | 846 | #1,252 |
| 1990s | 870 | #1,613 |
| 2000s | 1,281 | #1,079 |
| 2010s | 4,021 | #536 |
| 2020s | 2,077 | #751 |
Girl names about as popular as Adele
Questions
- Is Adele a boy or girl name?
- Adele is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Adele were girls.
- How popular is the name Adele?
- 362 baby girls were named Adele in the US in 2025, making it the 751st most popular girl name.
- When was Adele most popular?
- Adele peaked in 1918, when 1,030 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #187 in 1914.
- How many people are named Adele?
- 42,373 babies have been named Adele in the US since 1880. We estimate about 18,514 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 49.
- Where is Adele most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Adele was most common in New York, at 0.7 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.