Adele
Adele is ranked 798th among girls in 2024 (351 births). Its best rank was 187th, in 1914.
- Rank in 2024
- #798up 27 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3510.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19181,030 births
- Best rank
- #187in 1914
- Since 1880
- 41,996people given the name
The story in the numbers
41,996 girls have been named Adele in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,030 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 764 → 798).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 18%. It has spent 105 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Adele | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 748 | |
| 1890s | 1,498 | |
| 1900s | 1,881 | |
| 1910s | 6,880 | |
| 1920s | 7,660 | |
| 1930s | 4,076 | |
| 1940s | 3,763 | |
| 1950s | 3,863 | |
| 1960s | 1,892 | |
| 1970s | 1,006 | |
| 1980s | 846 | |
| 1990s | 869 | |
| 2000s | 1,281 | |
| 2010s | 4,021 | |
| 2020s | 1,712 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Adele was the 191st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Adele
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Josephinepeak 1918
- Rosepeak 1917
- Elvirapeak 1920
- Winifredpeak 1918
- Eldapeak 1916
- Agathapeak 1918
- Evelinepeak 1922
- Magdalenepeak 1923
Other spellings in the data
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.