Adelinda
Fewer than a dozen women in Poland carry it: seven in all, and no girl was given it last year. Germanic at root, from *adal* "noble" and *lind* "tender," it folds down to Ada in daily use.
Adelinda Pronunciation
Adelinda is pronounced ah-de-LEEN-dah (/adɛˈlinda/).
What Adelinda means
Where Adelinda comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Adelinda is built from two old Germanic roots. The first, adal, means noble. The second, lind, named something soft and flexible, and it was also the word for the linden tree. Together they settle into the meaning the name still holds: noble and tender.
The name travels light. Loosen it and you reach Adelina, the variant that carried further south into Italy and Spain. Shorten it again and you have Ada, the diminutive a girl grows up answering to. The lind ending links Adelinda to a small family of names, among them Belinda and Melinda, all built on that same root of softness.
On a Polish class register, the full form takes up room. Four syllables, read out once at the start of the year, then folded down to Ada by October. Most bearers spend their days as Ada and keep Adelinda for the official line on a form at the urząd. The tenderness in lind does the daily work. The nobility in adal waits in the document.
When Adelinda celebrates name day
Adelinda appears 1 time in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 28 August.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Adelinda
1 in 3220548 women in Poland is named Adelinda. 7 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #19894 among female names.
Adelinda as a middle name
Adelinda is a first name for 7 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 78/22 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5413th, between Adelfa (2) and Adelka (2).
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#5411 Adelaïde2
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#5412 Adelfa2
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#5413 Adelinda2
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#5414 Adelka2
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#5415 Adell2