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Adelaide

Adelaide is a girl's name meaning "noble kind". It is currently on the rise, with its biggest decade yet in the 2010s. As things stand now, it is a distinctive, less common pick. It has appeared in U.S. birth records in nearly every decade since 1900, a genuinely long run.

GermanicGermanic "adal" (noble) + "heid" (kind)
EtymologyMeaning "noble kind"
Births by decade
1900s
1,547
1910s
3,908
1920s
3,344
1930s
1,298
1940s
866
1950s
498
1960s
242
1970s
168
1980s
285
1990s
724
2000s
2,917
2010s
8,022
Peaked in the 2010s · 23,819 total U.S. births since 1900