Adelaide

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Adelaide: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Adelaide: Recorded since 1965, with a gap of 19 years, its highest recorded position is #347, and it stood at #411 in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
60years from first to last
#347highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Adelaide's record

Absent from every published list for 19 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1112
1997	#721
1998	#1165
1999	#900
2000	#1033
2001	#1238
2002	#962
2003	#855
2004	#1106
2005	#1406
2006	#1052
2007	#1126
2008	#831
2009	#850
2010	#910
2011	#789
2012	#955
2013	#616
2014	#731
2015	#577
2016	#594
2017	#549
2018	#602
2019	#475
2020	#486
2021	#380
2022	#397
2023	#347
2024	#411

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 9 of the 59 years from 1965 to 2023.

In 2024: #411 among girls in England and Wales, #541 among girls in Scotland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1965–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #347 among girls in England and Wales, in 2023 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #411 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Adelaide appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,507 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1965.

Adelaide across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Adelaide's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#385 (1965)	#385 (1965)	#625 (2023)	9 of 59	31 (1965–2023)	5 (2023)
England and Wales · Girls	#1112 (1996)	#347 (2023)	#411 (2024)	29 of 29	1,507 (1996–2024)	124 (2023)

Adelaide by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Adelaide in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	91	4 of 10	23
2000s	257	10 of 10	26
2010s	622	10 of 10	62
2020sbusiest	537	5 of 10	107

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 107 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2020 and 2021, when recorded births rose by 37, from 83 to 120.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Adelaide appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1965 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #347 in England and Wales in 2023.

Adelaide's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#411	104	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#347	124	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#397	106	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#380	120	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#486	83	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#475	87	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#602	68	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#549	79	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#594	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#577	74	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#731	54	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#616	66	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#955	38	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#789	47	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#910	38	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#850	40	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#831	40	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1126	25	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1052	26	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1406	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#855	30	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#962	23	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1238	16	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1033	20	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1165	17	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#721	33	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1112	17	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#418	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#625	5	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#716	4	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#868	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#894	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#429	4	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#541	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1965 and 2024, ranked in 31 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #347, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 124 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 19 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Adel · #386, 49y
Adela · #494, 30y
Adele · #84, 61y
Adelen · #117, 20y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Andi · #347, 29y
Bowen · #346, 27y
Kole · #348, 28y
Kyren · #348, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Dawit · #348, 45y
Bridin · #344, 19y
Marisa · #344, 46y
Angelique · #351, 34y

Adelaide was ranked #347 in England and Wales · Girls in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Adelaide and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Adelaide without appearing here.

Adelaide moved ahead of

Geraldine Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1238 and #1170 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #962 and #2301.
Stacey Compare
In 2012 they stood at #955 and #916 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #616 and #1324.
Elaine Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1406 and #1406 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1052 and #1748.
Pamela Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1406 and #1343 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1052 and #1748.

Moved ahead of Adelaide

Chloe Compare
In 2012 they stood at #429 and #497 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #13.
Megan Compare
In 2012 they stood at #429 and #497 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #63.
Caitlin Compare
In 2012 they stood at #429 and #497 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #73.
Sadie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #429 and #497 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2013 that had become #894 and #77.

Moved the opposite way to Adelaide

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 while Abigail went from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 while Aisling went from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 while Alex went from #161 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Adelaide

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Adelaide went from #1112 to #411 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1965 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #347 in England and Wales in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Adelaide

Adelaide at a glance

What stands out in Adelaide's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Adelaide across 2 official records

Adelaide by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Adelaide appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Adelaide

Adelaide and the names beside it

Adelaide moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Adelaide

Moved the opposite way to Adelaide

Moved the same way as Adelaide

Adelaide at a glance

What stands out in Adelaide's record

Adelaide across 2 official records

Adelaide by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Adelaide appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Adelaide

Adelaide and the names beside it

Adelaide moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Adelaide

Moved the opposite way to Adelaide

Moved the same way as Adelaide