Adelma

Last seen for girls in 1934 at #4,286

Peak · girls
1907 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
113
since 1907

Adelma over time

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

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #2,061, 1907girls
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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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1934#4,2865
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1931#4,3315
1930#4,0476
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1928#4,7255
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1926#3,04610
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1924#4,0027
1923#4,9675
1922#3,3799
1921#4,4646
1920#4,3986
1919#3,8177
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1917#2,87910
1916#3,0319
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1913#2,8276
1912#2,9795
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five girls were named Adelma! It came in at #2,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1907–1912, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

See more about Adelma
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1934
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 1907 at #2,061 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1908, 1 yr 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 63,713
  • Highest: 1 in 63,713 girls born in 1907 were named Adelma (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 208,845 girls born in 1934 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 42.5% of all girls named Adelma (48) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#2,061 (1907)#2,061
1910s44#2,827 (1913)#3,068
1920s48#3,046 (1926)#4,140
1930s16#4,047 (1930)#4,221

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.

Adelma in 1913

girls
#2,827
6 births · 1 in 104,091 girls

Top girls' names in 1913

  1. #1Mary36,642
  2. #2Helen18,888
  3. #3Dorothy14,674
  4. #4Margaret14,486
  5. #5Ruth12,609
  6. #6Mildred9,921
  7. #7Anna9,687
  8. #8Elizabeth9,505
  9. #9Frances7,694
  10. #10Marie7,353
  11. #2,827Adelma6
More about 1913

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624,546 girls got a published name in 1913; 1 in 104,091 of them was named Adelma, which outranked 23.7% of the 3,707 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Adelma
  1. #2,540Zenaida7
  2. #2,540Zenia7
  3. #2,540Zoa7
  4. #2,827Adelma6
  5. #2,827Adria6
  6. #2,827Agapita6
  7. #2,827Agnita6
  8. #3,187Adalyn5
  9. #3,187Adam5
  10. #3,187Adlee5

Tied with 359 names at #2,827; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. 963Dominga#1,844#881
  2. 931Stacia#1,844#913
  3. 576Olympia#1,477#901
  4. 559Lilah#1,540#981
  5. 445Elfrieda#1,297#852
Fallers
  1. 806Karen#960#1,766
  2. 572Erie#833#1,405
  3. 559Gertha#846#1,405
  4. 527Lossie#938#1,465
  5. 505Ardelia#960#1,465

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

See the top 100 for 1913