Adela
Meaning
means 'noble', root of Adele and Adelaide
Adela around the world
One shared root links 21 names across 3 languages.
Shared root: a Germanic family built on adal "noble": Adalheidis "of noble kind" wore down through Old French Aalis into Alice and a crowd of descendants
The constellation
15 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Adela peaked in the 2020s.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
499 people · the #13,390 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 500,000 · median age 51
Among people named Adela living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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