Adelia
Meaning
variant of Adele, traditionally 'noble'
Adelia 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
14 more branches of this family
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Adelia peaked in the 1890s and the 2020s in nearly equal measure.
Popularity in Brazil
28,307 people · the #853 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 7,194 · median age 62
Among people named Adelia living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1950s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 141 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Adelia deep dive
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