Adella

Where Adella comes from

Adella hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1863
    Adella Hunt Logan born
    American suffragist
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #309 among girls with 26 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #657.
  4. 1903
    Adella Wotherspoon born
    Last survivor of the General Slocum
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Adella Hunt Logan · American suffragist, 1863–1915
  • Adella Wotherspoon · Last survivor of the General Slocum, 1903–2004
  • Adella M. Parker · American politician, suffragist, lawyer, journalist, botanist and botanical collector, 1870–1956

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.