Adell

Where Adell comes from

From Proto-Germanic *aþalaz.
— Wiktionary's entry for Adell
  • Germanic
Along the way
  1. 1881
    First appearance
    #447 among girls, 14 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1910
    Peak, #426
    86 babies named Adell — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,637.
  4. 1991
    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 male given name from the Germanic languages, of rare usage, variant of Adel.
  • A female given name.
  • A village in Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States.
Namesakes

No widely known Adell turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.