Meaning not yet researched.
Adele: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 362 in 2025. Its best rank was #187 in 1914.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #187 in 1914; #751 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adele in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#751 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1914, at #187.
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Adele: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 362 girls in 2025. Peak: #187 in 1914 · most girls in one year: 1,030 (1918).
In 2025, 362 US girls were named Adele, making it the 751st most common girls’ name of the year, up 46 places from #797 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 353 girls named Adele in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #187, reached in 1914. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,030, in 1918. For comparison, it was #645 in 2015 and #390 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adele in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 41 babies with the name. In all, 42,373 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 7,660 babies named Adele.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,532 US girls were named Adele; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 443. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adele ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #304 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Adela (14,105 babies since 1880), Adelle (5,492 babies since 1880), Adell (7,263 babies since 1880) and Adiel (3,063 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Adil, Adael and Adeel are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Addy and Dell.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English, Italian and Latvian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Adil (1,553), Adael (657), Adeel (419), Adal (408), Aidel (362), Ayodele (359), Audel (233), Audell (28), Adielle (20), Addell (16), Adale (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
Adele is listed as a nickname for Adelaide, Adelphia.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 55 | #304 | #378 |
| New Jersey | 19 | #405 | #531 |
| Illinois | 25 | #417 | #635 |
| Washington | 13 | #511 | #518 |
| Florida | 34 | #531 | #624 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #564 | #395 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #612 | #743 |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #615 | #675 |
| California | 51 | #616 | #643 |
| Colorado | 8 | #636 | — |
| Maryland | 6 | #731 | #891 |
| Michigan | 10 | #736 | #664 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #777 | #529 |
| Ohio | 10 | #880 | #791 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #889 | #838 |
| Georgia | 10 | #915 | #816 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,034 | #618 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,284 | #760 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,353 | #874 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 362 | #751 | — | — |
| 2024 | 353 | #797 | — | — |
| 2023 | 334 | #825 | — | — |
| 2022 | 344 | #815 | — | — |
| 2021 | 340 | #816 | — | — |
| 2020 | 344 | #791 | — | — |
| 2019 | 368 | #760 | — | — |
| 2018 | 297 | #905 | — | — |
| 2017 | 347 | #791 | — | — |
| 2016 | 443 | #664 | — | — |
| 2015 | 444 | #645 | — | — |
| 2014 | 366 | #764 | — | — |
| 2013 | 443 | #634 | — | — |
| 2012 | 564 | #536 | — | — |
| 2011 | 462 | #625 | — | — |
| 2010 | 287 | #910 | — | — |
| 2009 | 236 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 2008 | 156 | #1,495 | — | — |
| 2007 | 148 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 2006 | 111 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,705 | — | — |
| 2004 | 112 | #1,726 | — | — |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,652 | — | — |
| 2002 | 90 | #1,955 | — | — |
| 2001 | 102 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,827 | — | — |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1998 | 83 | #1,845 | — | — |
| 1997 | 91 | #1,708 | — | — |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,840 | — | — |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,753 | — | — |
| 1992 | 72 | #1,928 | — | — |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1989 | 76 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,614 | — | — |
| 1987 | 83 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,602 | — | — |
| 1985 | 74 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1984 | 87 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1981 | 96 | #1,315 | — | — |
| 1980 | 89 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1979 | 99 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1978 | 77 | #1,474 | — | — |
| 1977 | 112 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1976 | 97 | #1,172 | — | — |
| 1975 | 103 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1974 | 102 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1973 | 105 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1971 | 108 | #1,103 | — | — |
| 1970 | 104 | #1,126 | — | — |
| 1969 | 130 | #932 | — | — |
| 1968 | 112 | #984 | — | — |
| 1967 | 116 | #945 | — | — |
| 1966 | 165 | #763 | — | — |
| 1965 | 186 | #730 | — | — |
| 1964 | 191 | #752 | — | — |
| 1963 | 204 | #715 | — | — |
| 1962 | 241 | #650 | — | — |
| 1961 | 275 | #610 | — | — |
| 1960 | 272 | #605 | — | — |
| 1959 | 301 | #564 | — | — |
| 1958 | 294 | #575 | — | — |
| 1957 | 315 | #540 | — | — |
| 1956 | 362 | #491 | — | — |
| 1955 | 382 | #464 | — | — |
| 1954 | 423 | #424 | — | — |
| 1953 | 443 | #406 | — | — |
| 1952 | 477 | #377 | — | — |
| 1951 | 433 | #394 | — | — |
| 1950 | 433 | #390 | — | — |
| 1949 | 440 | #375 | — | — |
| 1948 | 470 | #360 | — | — |
| 1947 | 435 | #381 | — | — |
| 1946 | 399 | #381 | — | — |
| 1945 | 330 | #392 | — | — |
| 1944 | 332 | #387 | — | — |
| 1943 | 367 | #377 | — | — |
| 1942 | 355 | #378 | — | — |
| 1941 | 313 | #388 | — | — |
| 1940 | 322 | #366 | — | — |
| 1939 | 309 | #374 | — | — |
| 1938 | 370 | #328 | — | — |
| 1937 | 372 | #320 | — | — |
| 1936 | 359 | #325 | — | — |
| 1935 | 365 | #331 | — | — |
| 1934 | 396 | #314 | — | — |
| 1933 | 362 | #330 | — | — |
| 1932 | 486 | #282 | — | — |
| 1931 | 499 | #279 | — | — |
| 1930 | 558 | #266 | — | — |
| 1929 | 555 | #272 | — | — |
| 1928 | 637 | #254 | — | — |
| 1927 | 713 | #244 | — | — |
| 1926 | 682 | #252 | — | — |
| 1925 | 738 | #243 | — | — |
| 1924 | 812 | #232 | — | — |
| 1923 | 789 | #231 | — | — |
| 1922 | 900 | #217 | — | — |
| 1921 | 890 | #215 | — | — |
| 1920 | 944 | #206 | — | — |
| 1919 | 886 | #211 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,030 | #191 | 6 | #3,731 |
| 1917 | 960 | #192 | — | — |
| 1916 | 902 | #198 | — | — |
| 1915 | 897 | #188 | — | — |
| 1914 | 709 | #187 | — | — |
| 1913 | 492 | #210 | — | — |
| 1912 | 418 | #220 | — | — |
| 1911 | 298 | #228 | — | — |
| 1910 | 288 | #224 | — | — |
| 1909 | 257 | #220 | — | — |
| 1908 | 192 | #250 | 5 | #1,373 |
| 1907 | 191 | #247 | — | — |
| 1906 | 199 | #220 | — | — |
| 1905 | 200 | #221 | — | — |
| 1904 | 163 | #243 | — | — |
| 1903 | 164 | #232 | — | — |
| 1902 | 172 | #230 | — | — |
| 1901 | 157 | #233 | — | — |
| 1900 | 186 | #230 | — | — |
| 1899 | 164 | #213 | — | — |
| 1898 | 165 | #229 | — | — |
| 1897 | 187 | #202 | — | — |
| 1896 | 152 | #223 | — | — |
| 1895 | 166 | #210 | — | — |
| 1894 | 151 | #217 | — | — |
| 1893 | 144 | #215 | — | — |
| 1892 | 123 | #235 | — | — |
| 1891 | 113 | #227 | — | — |
| 1890 | 133 | #208 | — | — |
| 1889 | 115 | #215 | — | — |
| 1888 | 116 | #213 | — | — |
| 1887 | 80 | #237 | — | — |
| 1886 | 79 | #232 | — | — |
| 1885 | 71 | #236 | — | — |
| 1884 | 71 | #229 | — | — |
| 1883 | 68 | #214 | — | — |
| 1882 | 64 | #208 | — | — |
| 1881 | 43 | #240 | — | — |
| 1880 | 41 | #240 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).