Entry № 124 · Germanic origin

Adelaide Adelaide — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ AD-eh-layd /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Germanic
Meaning
"Noble kind, of noble birth"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Germanic)

A name that means "noble kind, of noble birth".

Adelaide is the English form of the Germanic Adalheidis — composed of adal (noble) and heid (kind, sort).

Adelaide is the capital of South Australia, named after Queen Adelaide. The name has been continuously used in English but never enormously popular. Today it sits in the U.S. top 250 and is climbing fast.

Noble kind, of noble birth — a Germanic name.

The name in its native script.

Adelaide
Transliteration
Adelaide
Pronunciation
/ ˈæd.ə.leɪd /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Adelaide stands.

Adelaide does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Adelaides before her.

Real people
Saint Adelaide
Holy Roman Empress.
931 – 999
Queen Adelaide
Queen consort of King William IV of the UK.
1792 – 1849
In fiction
Adelaide
Character in the musical Guys and Dolls.
1950 musical

Names connected to Adelaide.

The number behind Adelaide.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Adelaide reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.