Adella

“Variant of Adela — Noble; serene” — Germanic origin

Girl's name · #2608 in the US (2025) · Heirloom

Adella is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1880, when it ranked #309. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 6,000 girls since 1880, ranked #2608 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Together with its spelling variant Adela (#1151), Adella would rank around #964 with about 270 births last year — the newborns split about 75/25 between Adela and Adella.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 3 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Adellas

Adella Hunt Logan — American suffragist
Adella Prentiss Hughes — pianist and impresario based in Cleveland, Ohio
Adella Wotherspoon — Last survivor of the General Slocum
Adella M. Parker — American politician, suffragist, lawyer, journalist, botanist and botanical collector (1870-1956)
Adella Brown Bailey — American suffragist

Similar names: Adela · Lenna · Adelaida · Nella · Lennie · Luella

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