Adelfa

Last seen for girls in 1974 at #8,775

Peak · girls
1945 · 15 births
Debut · girls
10 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
345
since 1916

Adelfa over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Adelfa has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201921peak #2,237, 1945girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1974#8,7755
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1971#8,3245
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1966#6,5645
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1964#4,6369
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1960#6,3905
1959#5,5666
1958#4,8907
1957#5,3776
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1953#5,0406
1952#5,5635
1951#4,8336
1950#4,3157
1949#4,2357
1948#3,5939
1947#3,24011
1946#2,39216
1945#2,23715
1944#3,6877
1943#3,8017
1942#2,81711
1941#3,9546
1940
1939#2,59211
1938#3,1818
1937#3,1468
1936#3,7016
1935#2,73110
1934#3,1598
1933#3,4067
1932#3,5687
1931
1930#4,5505
1929#2,92110
1928#2,76811
1927#2,69912
1926#2,87211
1925#4,9735
1924#2,97311
1923#3,12510
1922#3,3799
1921#3,16410
1920#3,5988
1919#3,8177
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1916#2,83310
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First appearance
1916

The first year at least five girls were named Adelfa! It came in at #2,833, and was given to 10 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Adelfa
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1974
Rise & fade · girls
29 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1916
  • Peaked 1945 at #2,237 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1949, 4 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 87,139
  • Highest: 1 in 87,139 girls born in 1945 were named Adelfa (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 293,507 girls born in 1974 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 28.1% of all girls named Adelfa (97) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s17#2,833 (1916)#3,325
1920s97#2,699 (1927)#3,247
1930s70#2,592 (1939)#3,337
1940s89#2,237 (1945)#3,328
1950s43#4,315 (1950)#5,083
1960s19#4,636 (1964)#5,863
1970s10#8,324 (1971)#8,550

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.

Adelfa in 1921

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#3,164
10 births · 1 in 123,306 girls

Top girls' names in 1921

  1. #1Mary73,984
  2. #2Dorothy39,087
  3. #3Helen34,822
  4. #4Margaret28,468
  5. #5Ruth25,783
  6. #6Virginia19,032
  7. #7Mildred17,880
  8. #8Betty17,638
  9. #9Frances15,993
  10. #10Elizabeth15,800
  11. #3,164Adelfa10
More about 1921

girls

1,233,058 girls got a published name in 1921; 1 in 123,306 of them was named Adelfa, which outranked 46.1% of the 5,871 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adelfa
  1. #2,941Zilla11
  2. #2,941Zillah11
  3. #2,941Zulema11
  4. #3,164Adelfa10
  5. #3,164Adalene10
  6. #3,164Ala10
  7. #3,164Alfredia10
  8. #3,400Adalyn9
  9. #3,400Adelyne9
  10. #3,400Adina9

Tied with 235 names at #3,164; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1920
Risers
  1. 4,238Elwanda#4,975#737
  2. 458Noreen#1,255#797
  3. 440Venice#1,375#935
  4. 343Isobel#1,312#969
  5. 306Aida#1,119#813
Fallers
  1. 612Lilia#931#1,543
  2. 345Denise#931#1,276
  3. 330Aleen#968#1,298
  4. 269Virgil#968#1,237
  5. 265Aldona#903#1,168

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1921