Adelle

Where Adelle comes from

Adelle 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. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #836 among girls — 5 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1906
    Peak, #642
    31 babies named Adelle — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1958
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,543.
  4. 1989
    Adelle Onyango born
    Kenyan radio presenter and social activist
  5. 1993
    Adelle Tracey born
    British athlete
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Adelle Onyango · Kenyan radio presenter and social activist, born 1989
  • Adelle Tracey · British athlete, born 1993
  • Adelle Davis · American activist and writer, 1904–1974
  • Adelle Lutz · American actress, model and costume designer, born 1948
  • Adelle Waldman · American writer, born 1977

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.