In 2025, 28 US girls were named Adelle, making it the 4,760th most common girls’ name of the year, down 644 places from #4,116 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 35 girls named Adelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #643, reached in 1906. The most girls given the name in a single year was 179, in 2011. For comparison, it was #2,194 in 2015 and #1,577 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Adelle in 140 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 5 babies. In all, 5,492 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,022 babies named Adelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 491 US girls were named Adelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Adele (42,373 babies since 1880), Adell (7,263 babies since 1880), Adella (5,998 babies since 1880) and Adel (3,002 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Idelle are summarised on this page.