Adelaide
Adelaide is ranked 271st among girls in 2024 (1,158 births). Its best rank was 179th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- #271up 13 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,1580.07% of girls
- Peak year
- 20161,240 births
- Best rank
- #179in 1883
- Since 1880
- 33,938people given the name
The story in the numbers
33,938 girls have been named Adelaide in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2016, with 1,240 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 30%. It has spent 88 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adelaide | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 879 | |
| 1890s | 1,319 | |
| 1900s | 1,547 | |
| 1910s | 3,908 | |
| 1920s | 3,344 | |
| 1930s | 1,298 | |
| 1940s | 866 | |
| 1950s | 498 | |
| 1960s | 243 | |
| 1970s | 168 | |
| 1980s | 286 | |
| 1990s | 724 | |
| 2000s | 2,919 | |
| 2010s | 10,224 | |
| 2020s | 5,715 |
In 2016, its biggest year
Adelaide was the 255th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2016 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Sophia and Isabella. See all of 2016.
Names that rose and fell with Adelaide
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Arizonapeak 2020
- Ariepeak 2018
- Zadiepeak 2016
- Stellapeak 2018
- Aviepeak 2023
- Sadiepeak 2014
- Emmiepeak 2018
- Lucypeak 2024
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.