Adelaide
#289 for girls in 2025, 1,062 births
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 85 births
- Debut · girls
- 65 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 35,007since 1880
Adelaide over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Adelaide has never cracked the top 100 here.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #289 | 1,062 |
| 2024 | #271 | 1,161 |
| 2023 | #286 | 1,106 |
| 2022 | #282 | 1,122 |
| 2021 | #261 | 1,192 |
| 2020 | #272 | 1,140 |
| 2019 | #304 | 1,065 |
| 2018 | #297 | 1,118 |
| 2017 | #277 | 1,163 |
| 2016 | #255 | 1,240 |
| 2015 | #272 | 1,163 |
| 2014 | #317 | 1,050 |
| 2013 | #320 | 1,020 |
| 2012 | #346 | 920 |
| 2011 | #408 | 775 |
| 2010 | #434 | 711 |
| 2009 | #571 | 535 |
| 2008 | #551 | 558 |
| 2007 | #713 | 410 |
| 2006 | #926 | 285 |
| 2005 | #901 | 278 |
| 2004 | #1,086 | 211 |
| 2003 | #1,254 | 167 |
| 2002 | #1,179 | 174 |
| 2001 | #1,213 | 167 |
| 2000 | #1,387 | 134 |
| 1999 | #1,492 | 115 |
| 1998 | #1,557 | 106 |
| 1997 | #1,707 | 91 |
| 1996 | #1,806 | 81 |
| 1995 | #2,155 | 62 |
| 1994 | #1,862 | 76 |
| 1993 | #2,322 | 55 |
| 1992 | #2,548 | 49 |
| 1991 | #2,550 | 48 |
| 1990 | #2,799 | 41 |
| 1989 | #3,477 | 29 |
| 1988 | #2,700 | 39 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #2,973 | 31 |
| 1985 | #3,008 | 30 |
| 1984 | #3,144 | 27 |
| 1983 | #2,595 | 34 |
| 1982 | #3,344 | 25 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,147 | 26 |
| 1978 | #3,283 | 23 |
| 1977 | #3,267 | 23 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #3,774 | 17 |
| 1974 | #3,863 | 16 |
| 1973 | #5,580 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 |
| 1968 | #3,169 | 17 |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 |
| 1966 | #2,752 | 20 |
| 1965 | #2,938 | 18 |
| 1964 | #2,530 | 24 |
| 1963 | #2,364 | 26 |
| 1962 | #2,073 | 32 |
| 1961 | #2,250 | 28 |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 |
| 1959 | #1,765 | 39 |
| 1958 | #1,908 | 33 |
| 1957 | #1,588 | 46 |
| 1956 | #1,520 | 49 |
| 1955 | #1,537 | 44 |
| 1954 | #1,344 | 55 |
| 1953 | #1,332 | 53 |
| 1952 | #1,256 | 57 |
| 1951 | #1,215 | 58 |
| 1950 | #1,153 | 64 |
| 1949 | #1,121 | 65 |
| 1948 | #950 | 84 |
| 1947 | #984 | 80 |
| 1946 | #1,042 | 66 |
| 1945 | #925 | 67 |
| 1944 | #881 | 75 |
| 1943 | #725 | 113 |
| 1942 | #780 | 95 |
| 1941 | #669 | 111 |
| 1940 | #660 | 110 |
| 1939 | #693 | 97 |
| 1938 | #635 | 117 |
| 1937 | #646 | 110 |
| 1936 | #586 | 128 |
| 1935 | #646 | 102 |
| 1934 | #544 | 139 |
| 1933 | #594 | 118 |
| 1932 | #576 | 130 |
| 1931 | #543 | 148 |
| 1930 | #465 | 209 |
| 1929 | #444 | 220 |
| 1928 | #438 | 240 |
| 1927 | #409 | 281 |
| 1926 | #409 | 275 |
| 1925 | #391 | 308 |
| 1924 | #376 | 330 |
| 1923 | #343 | 368 |
| 1922 | #320 | 414 |
| 1921 | #312 | 437 |
| 1920 | #299 | 471 |
| 1919 | #286 | 489 |
| 1918 | #286 | 486 |
| 1917 | #268 | 537 |
| 1916 | #280 | 449 |
| 1915 | #262 | 502 |
| 1914 | #259 | 396 |
| 1913 | #257 | 321 |
| 1912 | #258 | 299 |
| 1911 | #259 | 223 |
| 1910 | #270 | 206 |
| 1909 | #254 | 198 |
| 1908 | #273 | 167 |
| 1907 | #285 | 150 |
| 1906 | #266 | 154 |
| 1905 | #291 | 130 |
| 1904 | #288 | 123 |
| 1903 | #256 | 144 |
| 1902 | #256 | 151 |
| 1901 | #238 | 147 |
| 1900 | #233 | 183 |
| 1899 | #229 | 144 |
| 1898 | #242 | 148 |
| 1897 | #233 | 142 |
| 1896 | #245 | 130 |
| 1895 | #230 | 142 |
| 1894 | #228 | 136 |
| 1893 | #214 | 144 |
| 1892 | #248 | 112 |
| 1891 | #221 | 119 |
| 1890 | #242 | 102 |
| 1889 | #227 | 105 |
| 1888 | #233 | 98 |
| 1887 | #197 | 104 |
| 1886 | #204 | 94 |
| 1885 | #194 | 94 |
| 1884 | #181 | 98 |
| 1883 | #179 | 85 |
| 1882 | #186 | 74 |
| 1881 | #192 | 62 |
| 1880 | #186 | 65 |
First appearance
1880
In the first year the SSA published name data, Adelaide was already there! It came in at #186, and was given to 65 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1973, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
Where Adelaide is popular in 1898
The SSA only publishes names by state from 1910 on.
See more about Adelaide
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 18 spots since 2024 (#271 → #289)
- 17 spots since 2020 (#272 → #289)
- 17 spots since 2015 (#272 → #289)
- Biggest jump: 213 spots in 2007 (#926 → #713)
- Biggest drop: 171 spots in 1949 (#950 → #1,121)
Rise & fade · girls
3 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #179 (85 births)
- Births halved by 1958, 75 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 89 yrs
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 89 yrs · run 1880–1945
Share of babies · girls
1 in 1,317
- Highest: 1 in 1,317 girls born in 1884 were named Adelaide (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,513 girls born in 2025 (0.07%)
- Its best rank, #179 in 1883, was only 1 in 1,321 (0.08%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 29.2% of all girls named Adelaide (10,225) were born in this decade
- Comeback: #179 (1883) → #5,580 (1973) → #255 (2016)
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 879 | #179 (1883) | #198 |
| 1890s | 1,319 | #214 (1893) | #233 |
| 1900s | 1,547 | #233 (1900) | #264 |
| 1910s | 3,908 | #257 (1913) | #269 |
| 1920s | 3,344 | #299 (1920) | #374 |
| 1930s | 1,298 | #465 (1930) | #593 |
| 1940s | 866 | #660 (1940) | #874 |
| 1950s | 498 | #1,153 (1950) | #1,462 |
| 1960s | 243 | #1,887 (1960) | #2,580 |
| 1970s | 168 | #3,147 (1979) | #3,993 |
| 1980s | 286 | #2,595 (1983) | #3,225 |
| 1990s | 724 | #1,492 (1999) | #2,080 |
| 2000s | 2,919 | #551 (2008) | #978 |
| 2010s | 10,225 | #255 (2016) | #323 |
| 2020s | 6,783 | #261 (2021) | #277 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Adelaide in 1898
girls
#242
148 births · 1 in 1,748 girls
Top girls' names in 1898
More about 1898
girls
258,769 girls got a published name in 1898; 1 in 1,748 of them was named Adelaide, which outranked 87.7% of the 1,975 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).