Adela
2025 SSA
About Adela
A vibrant variation of Adele, with a bit of extra flair from that "-a" ending. It could join the army of popular A girls' names, especially with its tie to the success of singer Adele.
Adela, which came to England with the Normans in the eleventh century, has a royal pedigree via William the Conqueror's youngest daughter.
Adela Quested is a character in E. M. Foster's novel A Passage to India, and the name also appears in an Agatha Christie story. Journalist/novelist/screenwriter Adela Rogers St. .Johns was a colorful character in Golden Age Hollywood.
Adelia is another appealing variation, an alternative to the rising Amelia, and entered the UK Top 1000 in 2022.
Pronounced uh-DEL-uh.
As of October 2026, Adela ranked #1151 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #447 in 1882, Nameberry popularity #928.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,291 | 184 | 103 |
| 2015 | #1,124 | 227 | 127.2 |
| 2016 | #1,217 | 202 | 114 |
| 2017 | #1,281 | 184 | 106.6 |
| 2018 | #1,236 | 188 | 110.5 |
| 2019 | #1,210 | 193 | 115 |
| 2020 | #1,165 | 200 | 123.7 |
| 2021 | #1,187 | 205 | 124.9 |
| 2022 | #1,115 | 221 | 134.7 |
| 2023 | #1,129 | 215 | 134 |
| 2024 | #1,095 | 224 | 138.3 |
| 2025 | #1,151 | 201 | 125.1 |
World rankings
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Adela on lists
Famous Adelas
- Saint Adela of Pfalzel
Anglo,Saxon princess; daughter of Saint Dagobert II
- Adela of Meissen
Queen consort of Sweyn III of Denmark
- Adela of Normandy
daughter of William the Conqueror
- Adela Amalia Noriega
Mexican actress
- Adela Cortina
Spanish philosopher
- Adela Micha
Mexican journalist
- Adela Florence Nicolson
English poet [Laurence Hope]
- Adela Constantia Mary Pankhurst
British,Australian suffragette & political organizer
- Adela Pena
American violinist of the Eroica Trio
- Adela Elena Popescu
Romanian actress and singer
- Adela Nora Rogers St. Johns
American journalist and novelist
- Adela Elizabeth Zuniga
Honduran politician
- Adela
a beauty and fashion Youtuber
- Adéla Čech (b. 2008)
daughter of footballer Petr Čech
Adela in pop culture
- Adela
character in the 1927 silent film "It"
- Adela Corinthos
minor character on American soap "General Hospital"
- Adela Quested
young Englishwoman in E.M. Forster's "A Passage to India"
- Adela Trefoyle
Lord Polperro's daughter in "The Town Traveller"
- Adela
genus of moths