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Adelaide is a feminine name used in English and Italian. Behind the Name describes it this way: "Means ‘nobleness, nobility’, from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of adal ‘noble’ and the suffix heit ‘kind, sort, type’. In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836." It ranked #289 for girls in the United States in 2025.

According to Behind the Name, means ‘nobleness, nobility’, from the French form of the Germanic name Adalheidis, which was composed of adal ‘noble’ and the suffix heit ‘kind, sort, type’. In Britain the parallel form Alice, derived via Old French, has historically been more common than Adelaide, though this form did gain some currency in the 19th century due to the popularity of the German-born wife of King William IV, for whom the city of Adelaide in Australia was named in 1836. The entry lists its usage as English, Italian, Portuguese.

Adelaide ranked #289 for girls in the United States in 2025. The figure comes from the Social Security Administration's national file for that year.

Names that Behind the Name files under the same origin (English) and that sit near Adelaide in the 2025 American rankings.