Meaning and history
Adélaïde means "nobleness" or "nobility" and comes through French from the Germanic Adalheidis, formed from adal, "noble," and heit, "kind, sort, type." Saint Adelaide, the 10th-century wife of Holy Roman emperor Otto the Great, bore the name. Although the related Old French form Alice was historically more common in Britain, Adelaide gained use in the 19th century through the German-born wife of King William IV. The Australian city of Adelaide was named for her in 1836.
20062006: 285 births, rank #926
2007: 410 births, rank #713
2008: 558 births, rank #551
2009: 535 births, rank #571
2010: 711 births, rank #434
20112011: 775 births, rank #408
2012: 920 births, rank #346
2013: 1,020 births, rank #320
2014: 1,050 births, rank #317
2015: 1,163 births, rank #272
20162016: 1,240 births, rank #255
2017: 1,163 births, rank #277
2018: 1,118 births, rank #297
2019: 1,065 births, rank #304
2020: 1,140 births, rank #272
20212021: 1,192 births, rank #261
2022: 1,122 births, rank #282
2023: 1,106 births, rank #286
2024: 1,161 births, rank #271
20252025: 1,062 births, rank #289
Adelaide moved from #271 to #289 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2016, with 1,240 births.