Meaning and history
Adéla is originally a short form of names beginning with the Old German element adal, meaning “noble,” from Proto-Germanic *aþalaz. The name was borne by Saint Adela, a 7th-century Frankish princess who founded a monastery at Pfalzel in France, and by a daughter of William the Conqueror.
20062006: 141 births, rank #1,546
2007: 143 births, rank #1,579
2008: 150 births, rank #1,539
2009: 165 births, rank #1,420
2010: 128 births, rank #1,658
20112011: 152 births, rank #1,469
2012: 210 births, rank #1,167
2013: 209 births, rank #1,148
2014: 184 births, rank #1,291
2015: 227 births, rank #1,124
20162016: 202 births, rank #1,217
2017: 184 births, rank #1,282
2018: 188 births, rank #1,237
2019: 193 births, rank #1,209
2020: 200 births, rank #1,165
20212021: 205 births, rank #1,187
2022: 222 births, rank #1,114
2023: 215 births, rank #1,129
2024: 224 births, rank #1,098
20252025: 201 births, rank #1,150
Adela moved from #885 to #936 for girls between 1956 and 1957. Its highest annual birth count came in 1918, with 163 births.