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Girl's name · #1151 in the US (2025) · Vintage
Adela is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1882, when it ranked #447. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 14,000 girls since 1880, ranked #1151 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 18 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#12 in Czechia (2025) · #95 in Poland (2025) · #324 in Mexico (2024) · #434 in Ecuador (2025) · #604 in Sweden (2025) · #721 in Switzerland (2025) · #858 in Austria (2025) · #884 in Italy (2024) · #885 in Ireland (2025) · #1,512 in England & Wales (2025) · #1,882 in Canada (2025) · #2,325 in France (2025) and 5 more.
Among 568 notable people named Adela:
Medical professionals appear 1.65× more often than among typical names — e.g. Adela Azcuy, Cuban nurse (1861–1914).
Together with its spelling variant Adella (#2608), Adela would rank around #964 with about 270 births last year — the newborns split about 75/25 between Adela and Adella.
Similar names: Adella · Lucie · Addie · Lela · Emilie · Luella
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