Meaning not yet researched.
Adelia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #322 in 1884.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #322 in 1884; #2,117 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adelia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,117 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1884, at #322.
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Adelia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 girls in 2025. Peak: #322 in 1884 · most girls in one year: 112 (2017).
In 2025, 88 US girls were named Adelia, making it the 2,117th most common girls’ name of the year, down 37 places from #2,080 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 92 girls named Adelia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #322, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 112, in 2017. For comparison, it was #2,259 in 2015 and #1,576 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adelia in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 18 babies with the name. In all, 5,717 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 785 babies named Adelia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 879 US girls were named Adelia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,264 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adelia ranked highest in Washington in 2025, at #1,048 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Delia (37,380 babies since 1880), Adela (14,105 babies since 1880), Adalia (2,499 babies since 1880) and Adalie (2,456 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Audelia, Adali and Adelie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Audelia (741), Adali (726), Adelie (688), Adaliah (297), Adahlia (209), Adely (208), Adea (187), Adalea (120), Adelei (118), Adelee (108), Adaleia (92), Adeli (80), and more.
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.
No nicknames listed for Adelia in the open dataset we use.
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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington | 5 | #1,048 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,272 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,651 | #3,012 |
| Texas | 5 | #3,294 | #2,372 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 88 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2024 | 92 | #2,080 | — | — |
| 2023 | 86 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,405 | — | — |
| 2021 | 73 | #2,440 | — | — |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2019 | 86 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 2018 | 91 | #2,098 | — | — |
| 2017 | 112 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2016 | 92 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2014 | 73 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,870 | — | — |
| 2012 | 84 | #2,233 | — | — |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,092 | — | — |
| 2010 | 51 | #3,203 | — | — |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 2008 | 50 | #3,317 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,810 | — | — |
| 2004 | 42 | #3,490 | — | — |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,532 | — | — |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,324 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,292 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,872 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,366 | — | — |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,008 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,217 | — | — |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,321 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,057 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,741 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,465 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,289 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,280 | — | — |
| 1987 | 21 | #3,983 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,539 | — | — |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,078 | — | — |
| 1984 | 22 | #3,613 | — | — |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,687 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,527 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,436 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,247 | — | — |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,148 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,459 | — | — |
| 1977 | 25 | #3,083 | — | — |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,011 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,587 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,481 | — | — |
| 1971 | 15 | #3,943 | — | — |
| 1970 | 15 | #3,872 | — | — |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,456 | — | — |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,939 | — | — |
| 1964 | 22 | #2,675 | — | — |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,620 | — | — |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,060 | — | — |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,820 | — | — |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,517 | — | — |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,073 | — | — |
| 1957 | 18 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,530 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,973 | — | — |
| 1952 | 27 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1950 | 35 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,353 | — | — |
| 1948 | 27 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1946 | 40 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1945 | 32 | #1,418 | — | — |
| 1944 | 39 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1943 | 35 | #1,395 | — | — |
| 1942 | 39 | #1,278 | — | — |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1940 | 34 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 1939 | 33 | #1,291 | — | — |
| 1938 | 38 | #1,182 | — | — |
| 1937 | 32 | #1,282 | — | — |
| 1936 | 40 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1935 | 35 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,205 | — | — |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1932 | 38 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1931 | 45 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1930 | 50 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 1929 | 45 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1928 | 59 | #967 | — | — |
| 1927 | 64 | #935 | — | — |
| 1926 | 62 | #952 | — | — |
| 1925 | 58 | #976 | — | — |
| 1924 | 71 | #893 | — | — |
| 1923 | 59 | #967 | — | — |
| 1922 | 62 | #939 | — | — |
| 1921 | 64 | #928 | — | — |
| 1920 | 94 | #746 | — | — |
| 1919 | 72 | #828 | — | — |
| 1918 | 80 | #796 | — | — |
| 1917 | 77 | #788 | — | — |
| 1916 | 81 | #761 | — | — |
| 1915 | 82 | #734 | — | — |
| 1914 | 46 | #864 | — | — |
| 1913 | 38 | #852 | — | — |
| 1912 | 51 | #704 | — | — |
| 1911 | 38 | #704 | — | — |
| 1910 | 41 | #663 | — | — |
| 1909 | 37 | #644 | — | — |
| 1908 | 35 | #650 | — | — |
| 1907 | 36 | #624 | — | — |
| 1906 | 36 | #595 | — | — |
| 1905 | 41 | #536 | — | — |
| 1904 | 37 | #545 | — | — |
| 1903 | 28 | #629 | — | — |
| 1902 | 34 | #559 | — | — |
| 1901 | 39 | #481 | — | — |
| 1900 | 50 | #478 | — | — |
| 1899 | 36 | #491 | — | — |
| 1898 | 42 | #475 | — | — |
| 1897 | 47 | #425 | — | — |
| 1896 | 35 | #499 | — | — |
| 1895 | 41 | #440 | — | — |
| 1894 | 32 | #504 | — | — |
| 1893 | 45 | #399 | — | — |
| 1892 | 39 | #428 | — | — |
| 1891 | 37 | #404 | — | — |
| 1890 | 30 | #475 | — | — |
| 1889 | 41 | #379 | — | — |
| 1888 | 42 | #369 | — | — |
| 1887 | 40 | #337 | — | — |
| 1886 | 28 | #406 | — | — |
| 1885 | 23 | #438 | — | — |
| 1884 | 37 | #322 | — | — |
| 1883 | 30 | #324 | — | — |
| 1882 | 23 | #372 | — | — |
| 1881 | 21 | #360 | — | — |
| 1880 | 18 | #388 | — | — |
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).