In 2025, 65 US girls were named Adelaida, making it the 2,647th most common girls’ name of the year, down 579 places from #2,068 in 2024. That is 28 fewer than the 93 girls named Adelaida in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,034, reached in 1899. The most girls given the name in a single year was 93, in 2024. For comparison, it was #3,433 in 2015 and #2,053 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adelaida in 128 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1889 with 5 babies. In all, 3,177 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 404 babies named Adelaida.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 605 US girls were named Adelaida; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 93. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adelaida ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,577 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adelaide (35,007 babies since 1880) and Aida (13,782 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adalida and Adelayda are summarised on this page.
Meaning
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Galician, Old Spanish and Visigothic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.