Adele
Top 1000
About Adele
Credit the award-winning single-named British singer for taking the girls’ name Adele from a quiet semi-retirement back into currency. Adele reentered the US Top 1000 popular baby names in 2011 and has remained there ever since.
Adele is both a saint's and a royal name, having originated as the French version of the German Adela. It's one of the most stylish girl names starting with A.
Molly Ringwald chose Adele for one of her twins, and Fred Astaire's first dancing partner was his older sister Adele.
Historically, Adele was the name of the youngest daughter of William the Conquerer. Music lovers might associate the name with a character in Johann Strauss's operetta Die Fledermaus, while a prime literary reference is Jane Eyre's young charge.
Pronounced uh-DEL.
As of October 2026, Adele ranked #751 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #187 in 1914, Nameberry popularity #592.
Editor's take: The name Adele is a girl's name of German, French origin meaning "noble, nobility".
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #764 | 366 | 204.9 |
| 2015 | #645 | 444 | 248.7 |
| 2016 | #663 | 443 | 250 |
| 2017 | #791 | 347 | 201 |
| 2018 | #905 | 297 | 174.6 |
| 2019 | #760 | 368 | 219.3 |
| 2020 | #794 | 343 | 212.2 |
| 2021 | #816 | 340 | 207.2 |
| 2022 | #813 | 344 | 209.7 |
| 2023 | #825 | 334 | 208.2 |
| 2024 | #798 | 351 | 216.6 |
| 2025 | #751 | 362 | 225.2 |
World rankings
Similar names
These 20 names were selected by our users looking for other names like Adele.
- Elsa
- Cecelia
- Elaine
- Camilla
- Valerie
- Annabel
- Nina
- Celine
- Eileen
- Madeleine
- Camille
- Naomi
- Mina
- Miranda
- Nadia
- Anneliese
- Francesca
- Lara
- Jacqueline
- Carmen
Adele on lists
Famous Adeles
- Adele (Laurie Blue Adkins)
British singer,songwriter
- Adèle Exarchopoulos
French actress
- Adele Marie Astaire
American dancer
- Adele Emily Sandé
birth name of Emeli Sandé, British singer,songwriter
- Adele Mara (born Adelaide Delgado)
American actress
- Adele DeGarde
American actress
- Adele Griffin
American novelist
- Adele Katie Silva
English actress
- Adèle King aka Twink
Irish singer of girl group Maxi, Dick and Twink; mother of singer Chloë Agnew of Celtic Woman
- Adèle Haenel
French actress
- Adèle Hugo
youngest daughter of novelist Victor Hugo
- Adele Georgiana (b. 2009)
daughter of American actress Molly Ringwald
- Phoebe Adele Gates (b. 2002)
daughter of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates
- Adele Bloch
Bauer, model for Gustav Klimt's "The Woman In Gold"
Adele in pop culture
- Adele von Glanzreich from the anime
Oushitsu Kyoushi Heine (The Royal Tutor), the name goes by a German pronunciation, ah,DAY,la.
- Adele Varens
Mr Rochester's ward and Jane's young pupil in "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte
- Adele Dronsart
Belgian pupil at Mlle (Zoraide) Reuter's in "The Professor" (1857) by Charlotte Bronte
- Adele Stackhouse
character on TV's "True Blood"
- Adele Webber
character on "Grey's Anatomy"
- Adele Ratignolle
character in Kate Chopin's"The Awakening" (1899)
- Adele the Singing Coach Fairy
character in book series "Rainbow Magic"
- Adele Invergordan
character in movie "The Legend of Bagger Vance"
- Adele Roberts
character in "The Hollow Kingdom" by Clare Dunkle
- Adele
character in film"Blue is the Warmest Color", portrayed by Adele Exarchopoulos
- Adele de Pignerolles
character in G. A. Henty's "A Cornet of Horse"
- "Adele Dazeem
" John Travolta's infamous mispronunciation of "Idina Menzel"
- Adele Wayne
Dwayne's mother on TV sitcom "A Different World"