Adela

Where Adela comes from

Latinate form of French Adèle, short form of Germanic compound names beginning with Proto-Germanic *aþalaz (“noble”). Compare Old English æþele, English athel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adela
  • Germanic
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1854
    Adela Zamudio born
    Bolivian writer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #580 among girls — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1882
    Peak, #446
    17 babies named Adela — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #828.
  5. 1969
    Adela born
    Mexican actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from the Germanic languages.
Namesakes
  • Adela · Mexican actress, born 1969
  • Adela Zamudio · Bolivian writer, 1854–1928
  • Adela Pankhurst · British-Australian suffragette and political activist, 1885–1961
  • Adela · Catholic saint and royal princess, 660–734
  • Adela Rogers St. Johns · American journalist, novelist, and screenwriter, 1894–1988

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.