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Adell

Feminine · “noble”

Adell is given to both — 6,214 girls and 1,049 boys since 1880. See Adell as a boy nameSee other names given to both

1881high 1919
#10917 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare8 girls in 2025

Nineteenth-century American clerks respelled French names so they would say themselves. Adele, whose final e is silent and whose weight falls at the end, was written Adell — the doubled l standing in for an accent the English alphabet does not have.

How old is the name Adell?

Adell first appears in US birth records in 1881 — 144 years ago. The typical Adell alive today was born around 1924, making them about 101 years old. About 1,700 people named Adell are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Adell most popular?

Adell peaked in 1910, reaching #426 nationally. Today it ranks #10917, 10,491 places below that high. See the whole 1910 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Adell

Adal is the Frankish word for noble descent, and it opens a long shelf of names: Adalheidis, Adalbert, Adaltrude. Adela was the short form, common in the Frankish and Norman aristocracy and carried into England after the Conquest. French took it as Adele, with an accent telling a French reader that the first e is open rather than silent. English has no such accent, so American records wrote what they heard, and wrote it several ways: Adell, Adelle, Adel. For girls the line runs through French. The small number of boys reaches the same five letters from the other direction, along the row of American surnames — Odell, Cordell, Darnell — that have long supplied boys with given names.

Meaning

noble, from the Germanic adal

Adell is a spelling of Adele, built on the Germanic element adal, meaning noble or of good family. The same element produced Adelaide, Adeline, Adalbert and Adelheid, and it is one of the most productive name-elements in medieval Europe.

How the name formed

  1. adal
  2. Adalheidis
  3. Adela
  4. Adele
  5. Adell

Related forms: Adele · Adele · Adela · Adele · Adelia

Pronouncing Adell

uh-DEL

Two syllables with the weight on the second, exactly like Adele. Some families front-load it as ADD-ell; the spelling does not settle which.

Nicknames for Adell

Moderate

DellaA nineteenth-century short form that became a name in its own right and is still given alone
AddieShared with Adeline, Adelaide and Addison, so it says little about which name is underneath
DellThe bare ending, used within families and by the men who carry the name
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1881–2025194970194818812025

US babies named Adell per year from 1881 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#4261880s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1881
Most girls named
1919194 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#426reached in 1910
Change vs 2021
+14.3%8 in 2025, from 7
Adell sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1919, with 194 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Adell in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Adele in French — same name
  • Adele in German — same name
  • Adela in Spanish — same name
  • Adele in Italian — same name
  • Adelia in Portuguese — related form

Adells among us

1,700

people named Adell are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 200,908 born in 2025 was named Adell

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Adell

#10917
Adell on the 2025 chart
#920
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Adell went to 8 girls in 2025, but Adel is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 40, which makes it the 920th most-given girls’ name of the year — 9,997 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 40,182 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 200,908 for Adell itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

Fashion outlook

Adell sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

40%chance Adell will feel dated by 2040
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Adell beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Adell in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Adellthis name8#10917Edythe8#10917Tessie8#10917Drusilla8#10917Eugenie8#10917

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • It says itself: nobody has to be told where the stress falls.
  • Three settled short forms, one of which stands alone as a name.
  • The root is documented and recognizable in six European languages.
What to consider
  • Adele is the standard spelling, and a singer known by that one word has made it more standard still; expect the second l to be dropped.
  • It is strongly represented among the oldest generations, which for some families is exactly the point and for others is the problem.
  • The few boys who carry the spelling will be taken for girls on paper.

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Frequently asked

How many Adells are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Adell are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Adell?
Adell is one of 2 recorded spellings. Adel is the more common one — 32 births in 2025 against 8 for Adell.
How popular is the name Adell in 2025?
Adell ranks #10917 among US girl names in 2025, with 8 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Adell?
About 1 in every 200,908 US girls born in 2025 was named Adell — 8 in all.
Will my child share the name Adell with classmates?
Adell will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Adell

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Edythe#10917 · Tessie#10917 · Drusilla#10917 · Eugenie#10917 · Ivah#10917 · Karri#10917 · Claribel#10917 · Myrtle#10917

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