Adelaide
Top 1000
About Adelaide
Adelaide is now heading straight uphill on the coattails of such newly popular sisters as Ava, Ada, and Audrey, and in the company of Adeline and Amelia. It was chosen by Britain's Princess Eugenie as the name for her youngest child and first daughter, Adelaide Elizabeth Annina. Earlier, actress Katherine Heigl for the name of her second daughter.
Adelaide gained fame as the noble German princess who married the British King William IV in 1830 and became known as "Good Queen Adelaide," inspiring the name of the Australian city and a craze for her name. Earlier, St. Adelaide was married to Otto the Great and became Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, described as "a marvel of beauty and goodness."
When Aussie actress Rachel Griffiths (also mother of son Banjo) chose Adelaide for her daughter, she said she'd been inspired by the city, Miss Adelaide in Guys and Dolls, and the Disney character in The Aristocats. Adelaide can also be found in works by Thomas Hardy and Agatha Christie.
Pronounced AD-uh-layd.
As of October 2026, Adelaide ranked #289 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #179 in 1883, Nameberry popularity #62.
Editor's take: The name Adelaide is a girl's name of German origin meaning "noble, nobility".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #317 | 1,050 | 587.8 |
| 2015 | #272 | 1,163 | 651.5 |
| 2016 | #255 | 1,240 | 699.8 |
| 2017 | #277 | 1,163 | 673.6 |
| 2018 | #297 | 1,118 | 657.2 |
| 2019 | #304 | 1,065 | 634.5 |
| 2020 | #272 | 1,139 | 704.6 |
| 2021 | #261 | 1,190 | 725.2 |
| 2022 | #282 | 1,122 | 684.1 |
| 2023 | #284 | 1,106 | 689.3 |
| 2024 | #271 | 1,158 | 714.7 |
| 2025 | #289 | 1,062 | 660.7 |
World rankings
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Adelaide on lists
Famous Adelaides
- Adelaide of Vohburg
Queen consort of Frederick Barbarossa of Germany
- Adelaide Amelia Louise Theresa Caroline of Saxe
Meiningen, Queen consort of Britain's William IV
- Adelaide of Löwenstein
Wertheim,Rosenberg (born Sophie Amelie Adelheid Louise Johanne Leopoldine), Queen consort of Miguel I of Portugal
- Adelaide of Normandy
Countess of Aumale, sister of William the Conqueror
- Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa
Princess Royal; Queen consort of Frederick III of Prussia; eldest child of Britain's Queen Victoria
- Adelaide Louise Hall
American singer
- Adelaide Cole Chase
American painter
- Adelaide Crapsey
American poet
- Adelaide Bishop
American operatic soprano
- Adelaide Anne Procter
English poet
- Adelaide Kane
Australian actress
- Adelaide Clemens
Australian actress
- Adélaïde
Gillette Dufrénoy, French poet and painter
- Adelaide Louise McLaughlin
wife of Robert Samuel McLaughlin, has a school and a street named after her in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Adelaide Rose Taylor (b. 2005)
daughter of actress Rachel Griffiths and painter Andrew Taylor
- Adelaide Ambrose (b. 2007)
daughter of NASCAR driver Marcos Ambrose
- Adelaide Fastvold
Corbet (b. 2014), daughter of actor Brady Corbet & Mona Fastvold
- Adelaide Cervantes (b. 2016)
daughter of actor Miguel Cervantes
- Adelaide Rue Price (b. 2016)
daughter of actress Sara Rue and Kevin Price
Adelaide in pop culture
- Adelaide Wilson
main character of the film Us
- Miss Adelaide
character in 'Guys & Dolls.'
- Adelaide Bonfamille
character in 'The Aristocats.'
- Adelaide Geary
character in 'They Came to Cordura.'
- Adelaide Langdon
character in 'American Horror Story.'
- Adelaide Dinsmore
aunt of Elsie Dinsmore in the series
- Adelaide Brooke
a character in the British television series Doctor Who
- Adelaide Boyer
a character in the "Sims" series
- Adelaide
a witch character from the Cartoon Network miniseries "Over the Garden Wall"
- Adelaide
fairy tale character from the book series, "The Ever Afters."
- Adelaide Stratton
character in Houdini & Doyle
- Adelaide Drubman
character in the game "Far Cry 5"
- Adelaide
capital city of South Australia (Australia).
- Adelaide "Addy" Prentiss
character in the book, "One of Us Is Lying".