girls:
41.6k births since 1880
#659 (88th percentile)
boys:
11 births since 1908
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
41.7k births since 1880
#1209 (84th percentile)
The name Adele is the #1,209 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,652 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #659 (88.5% percentile) for all time with 41,641 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 1908.
Adele has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1908 for boys).
The name Adele has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Adele reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 68.4% percentile (ranked #187) with 857 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 890 births per million (ranked 63.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Adele ranks #631 for girls (33.4% percentile) with 191 births per million, which is 21.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Adele reached its peak popularity in 1918, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #530) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 30 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1918.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Adele".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Adele. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Adele is pronounced as uh-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-DEHL, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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