girls:
13.7k births since 1880
#1324 (77th percentile)
overall:
13.7k births since 1880
#2238 (71st percentile)
The name Adela is the #2,238 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,676 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 71.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 71.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,324 (76.8% percentile) for all time with 13,676 births since 1880.
Adela has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
For girls, Adela reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 25.8% percentile (ranked #438) with 136 births per million. The name was most common in 1889, with 153 births per million (ranked 8.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Adela ranks #737 for girls (22.2% percentile) with 123 births per million, which is 80.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adela".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Adela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Adela is pronounced as uh-DEH-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-duh-luh, at 9.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like AH0 D EH1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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