Meaning not yet researched.
Adella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 66 in 2025. Its best rank was #309 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #309 in 1880; #2,608 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Adella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,608 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #309.
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Adella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 66 girls in 2025. Peak: #309 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 143 (1920).
In 2025, 66 US girls were named Adella, making it the 2,608th most common girls’ name of the year, up 168 places from #2,776 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 61 girls named Adella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #309, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 143, in 1920. For comparison, it was #2,556 in 2015 and #1,679 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adella in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 26 babies with the name. In all, 5,998 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,014 babies named Adella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 692 US girls were named Adella; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,353 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Adella ranked highest in California in 2025, at #2,493 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Della (70,949 babies since 1880), Adela (14,105 babies since 1880) and Adelle (5,492 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Adella 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 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,493 | #2,312 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,923 | #2,871 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 66 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,776 | — | — |
| 2023 | 75 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 2022 | 65 | #2,661 | — | — |
| 2021 | 72 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 2020 | 69 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 2019 | 75 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,334 | — | — |
| 2017 | 62 | #2,746 | — | — |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 2015 | 70 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2014 | 79 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2013 | 82 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 2012 | 95 | #2,029 | — | — |
| 2011 | 71 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 2010 | 66 | #2,691 | — | — |
| 2009 | 46 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,779 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,993 | — | — |
| 2005 | 29 | #4,581 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,819 | — | — |
| 2003 | 20 | #5,797 | — | — |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,134 | — | — |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,068 | — | — |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,489 | — | — |
| 1999 | 10 | #8,811 | — | — |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,364 | — | — |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,028 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,579 | — | — |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,264 | — | — |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,579 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,058 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,315 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,592 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,466 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,451 | — | — |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #9,831 | — | — |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,613 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,032 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,159 | — | — |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,150 | — | — |
| 1982 | 11 | #5,914 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,319 | — | — |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,442 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,214 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,533 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,813 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 1974 | 16 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,581 | — | — |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,714 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,508 | — | — |
| 1970 | 21 | #3,111 | — | — |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,620 | — | — |
| 1968 | 19 | #2,969 | — | — |
| 1967 | 20 | #2,781 | — | — |
| 1966 | 20 | #2,753 | — | — |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,149 | — | — |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,312 | — | — |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,888 | — | — |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,289 | — | — |
| 1958 | 28 | #2,117 | — | — |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,728 | — | — |
| 1956 | 35 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1955 | 32 | #1,877 | — | — |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,769 | — | — |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,460 | — | — |
| 1952 | 38 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,679 | — | — |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,698 | — | — |
| 1948 | 48 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,525 | — | — |
| 1946 | 38 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1945 | 34 | #1,375 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 1943 | 30 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1941 | 38 | #1,222 | — | — |
| 1940 | 43 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1939 | 42 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1938 | 39 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1937 | 43 | #1,085 | — | — |
| 1936 | 55 | #921 | — | — |
| 1935 | 48 | #995 | — | — |
| 1934 | 52 | #955 | — | — |
| 1933 | 52 | #947 | — | — |
| 1932 | 66 | #856 | — | — |
| 1931 | 61 | #876 | — | — |
| 1930 | 66 | #889 | — | — |
| 1929 | 66 | #876 | — | — |
| 1928 | 81 | #794 | — | — |
| 1927 | 72 | #874 | — | — |
| 1926 | 100 | #725 | — | — |
| 1925 | 116 | #684 | — | — |
| 1924 | 117 | #685 | — | — |
| 1923 | 97 | #741 | — | — |
| 1922 | 109 | #701 | — | — |
| 1921 | 113 | #694 | — | — |
| 1920 | 143 | #599 | — | — |
| 1919 | 141 | #593 | — | — |
| 1918 | 135 | #607 | — | — |
| 1917 | 110 | #649 | — | — |
| 1916 | 123 | #606 | — | — |
| 1915 | 106 | #640 | — | — |
| 1914 | 81 | #642 | — | — |
| 1913 | 73 | #606 | — | — |
| 1912 | 67 | #596 | — | — |
| 1911 | 46 | #634 | — | — |
| 1910 | 33 | #737 | — | — |
| 1909 | 32 | #706 | — | — |
| 1908 | 45 | #557 | — | — |
| 1907 | 29 | #702 | — | — |
| 1906 | 31 | #642 | — | — |
| 1905 | 34 | #600 | — | — |
| 1904 | 25 | #700 | — | — |
| 1903 | 26 | #654 | — | — |
| 1902 | 22 | #734 | — | — |
| 1901 | 31 | #547 | — | — |
| 1900 | 33 | #611 | — | — |
| 1899 | 19 | #728 | — | — |
| 1898 | 30 | #586 | — | — |
| 1897 | 25 | #615 | — | — |
| 1896 | 18 | #754 | — | — |
| 1895 | 30 | #538 | — | — |
| 1894 | 31 | #516 | — | — |
| 1893 | 32 | #474 | — | — |
| 1892 | 26 | #540 | — | — |
| 1891 | 23 | #541 | — | — |
| 1890 | 29 | #483 | — | — |
| 1889 | 30 | #439 | — | — |
| 1888 | 19 | #572 | — | — |
| 1887 | 13 | #634 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #657 | — | — |
| 1885 | 26 | #405 | — | — |
| 1884 | 16 | #520 | — | — |
| 1883 | 16 | #480 | — | — |
| 1882 | 18 | #431 | — | — |
| 1881 | 16 | #418 | — | — |
| 1880 | 26 | #309 | — | — |
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).