Adel

Where Adel comes from

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz. The female name is a rare variant of Adele. The surname is borrowed from German Adel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adel
  • Germanic
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1914
    First appearance
    #3,264 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Adel Emam born
    Egyptian actor
  3. 1989
    Adel Taarabt born
    Moroccan footballer
  4. 1992
    Peak, #2,174
    35 babies named Adel — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2025
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages, variant of Adele.
  • An unincorporated community in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States.
  • A male given name from Arabic.
Namesakes
  • Adel Taarabt · Moroccan footballer, born 1989
  • Adel Emam · Egyptian actor, born 1940
  • Adel Chedli · Tunisian and French association football player, born 1976
  • Adel Safar · 64th Prime Minister of the Syrian Arab Republic, born 1953
  • Adel al-Jubeir · Saudi diplomat and minister of foreign affairs, born 1962

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.